Abashiri, Hokkaido – Coast guard officials on Saturday began investigating a salvaged tour boat that was involved in a deadly accident off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido last month. At around 12 p.m., about a dozen coast guard personnel entered the salvaged tour boat placed on the multipurpose work vessel Kaishin, which arrived at the
Sapporo – Deep-water divers wound up their two-day search inside a sunken tour boat off Hokkaido on Friday after finding no trace of the 12 people still missing after the accident in late April, the Japan Coast Guard said. A survey of the 19-ton boat, which currently sits on the seabed some 120 meters below
Ten people were confirmed dead Sunday after a tourist boat with a total of 26 passengers and crew aboard went missing in rough waters the previous day off a World Heritage site on the island of Hokkaido, the country’s coast guard said. Aircraft and vessels dispatched by the Japan Coast Guard and the Self-Defense Forces
SAPPORO – A tour boat with 24 passengers, including two children, and two crew members on board went missing Saturday while on a tour around the scenic Shiretoko Peninsula on Hokkaido, the Japan Coast Guard said. The boat Kazu I reported to the coast guard it was taking on water around 1:15 p.m., and then
