By AYAKA KIBI/ Staff Writer
December 9, 2019 at 18:55 JST
Members of a new coast guard mobile surveillance unit examine a wooden boat that drifted ashore in Fukaura, Aomori Prefecture, on Nov. 29. (Provided by the Japan Coast Guard's Aomori Coast Guard Office)
AOMORI--The Coast Guard office here set up a mobile surveillance unit to respond to a rising number of often dilapidated wooden boats found drifting or washed up on the coastline, many apparently from North Korea. [Read More]
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