SHARI, Hokkaido More than a year after the deadly sinking of a pleasure boat in rough seas, tour boat operators here resumed cruises to Cape Shiretoko on the same route taken by the ill-fated Kazu I.
Three bodies recovered by Russia that are believed to be those of people missing from a tourist boat that sank off Hokkaido in April arrive in Japan on a coast guard vessel.
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OTARU, Hokkaido Russian authorities Sept. 9 handed over the bodies of three Japanese who drowned in a sightseeing boat tour accident off eastern Hokkaido in April that claimed the lives of all 26 passengers and crew members.
Japan has reached agreement with Russia to collect the bodies of two men and a woman who drowned when their sightseeing boat sank off the scenic Shiretoko Peninsula in eastern Hokkaido in April, sources said.