The measure was put in place on Wednesday, Japan´s Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement.
Japan has temporarily suspended imports of all poultry and poultry meat from Britain as a preventive measure after Britain's farm ministry confirmed an outbreak of a strain of bird flu.
The measure was put in place on Wednesday, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement.
Japan imported 38,677 live chicks from Britain last year, sharply down from 161,530 in 2006, according to trade data by the Ministry of Finance.
On Tuesday, Britain confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in southern England although tests indicated it was not the virulent H5N1 strain.
The H5N1 strain has killed more than 230 people worldwide since 2003 and millions of birds have either died from it or been killed to prevent its spread.
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