The European Union has been restricting imports of food from Japan since the Fukushima nuclear accident. Now officials say they'll relax some of their controls. The EU requires radiation checks on food products from Tokyo and nine other prefectures, officials imposed that requirement in 2011, because they were worried about radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Staff at the EU's executive bodies say they'll ease their controls in April. They'll no longer require inspections of any food products from Tokyo and the neighboring prefecture of Kanagawa. And they'll end checks on vegetables and animal products from prefectures other than Fukushima. Still, the officials have new concerns. They'll start demanding inspections of mushrooms and bamboo shoots from the northern prefectures of Akita and Yamagata.