A restaurant in Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido hopes to be a place of comfort for families of victims in a tourist boat accident off its coast in April last year.
A tourist boat that sank off Japan s northernmost main island of Hokkaido last month has been salvaged and will arrive at the port of Abashiri later on May 27, setting the stage for a full-fledged investigation into the cause of the accident that left 14 people dead and 12 missing.
The second attempt to salvage a tourist boat that last month sank off Hokkaido, leaving 14 people dead and 12 missing, advanced on May 26, after the vessel fell back to the seabed earlier this week, delaying the investigation into the cause of the tragedy.
A vessel carrying divers trained to work at great depths arrives at a port in eastern Hokkaido in preparation for a search inside a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula last month, leaving 14 people dead and 12 missing.