By AYAKA KIBI/ Staff Writer
December 9, 2019 at 18:55 JST
A wooden fishing boat found by the mobile surveillance team in Fukaura, Aomori Prefecture, is believed to have drifted from North Korea. (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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