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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.
The transport ministry on June 16 revoked the Shiretoko Pleasure Boat’s license to operate the first time it brought down its heaviest administrative disciplinary action against a passenger ship firm in response to an accident.
The president of a sightseeing tour boat company said in a statement that the government shares some of the responsibility for a fatal tour boat accident off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in late April.
ABASHIRI, Hokkaido The salvage operation of the Kazu I pleasure boat was completed on June 1 with the vessel safely unloaded and transported to a storage area at a port here, the Japan Coast Guard said.