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.
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.
The body of a woman who may be one of the missing people from a tourist boat that sank off Hokkaido has been found washed ashore on Kunashiri Island, one of four Russia-controlled, Japan-claimed islands, the Japan Coast Guard said on May 13.