By YUMI NAKAYAMA/ Staff Writer
July 23, 2021 at 07:10 JST
Korin, a beluga whale, peers at a small camera as it swims in Lake Notoroko in Abashiri, Hokkaido, on July 16, 2016. (Yumi Nakayama)
ABASHIRI, Hokkaido--Fisherman Yoichi Ishigaki has such fond memories of a lone but sociable beluga whale he bonded with while battling cancer that he erected a memorial to his “friend” after it met with an apparent boating accident. [Read More]
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