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A phone booth is installed in Rausu, Hokkaido, to offer a place for people who lost their loved ones in a 2022 tour boat accident to grieve.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 2, 2026
Phone booth set up in Hokkaido offers a place to speak to lost loved ones
The 2022 sinking of a tourist boat off Hokkaido left 20 passengers and crew members dead and six others unaccounted for.
Eiji Hatta, chairman of the Doshisha Educational Foundation, bows his head during a news conference in Kyoto on Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2026
Doshisha chairman apologizes over fatal boat accident in Okinawa
Eiji Hatta, chairman of Doshisha’s board of trustees, offered his “deepest condolences” at a news conference in Kyoto on Friday.
The parents of Tomoka Takeishi, who died in a boat accident in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, in March, lay flowers at a beach near the site of the accident on Sunday.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2026
Parents of student killed in Henoko boat accident call for stronger safety measures
The bereaved parents met with the governor of Okinawa Prefecture for the first time since the accident in March.
Rescue crew members on Wednesday carry a body bag containing a victim of the Virgo Transport 8 ferry, which capsized in the Java Sea on Sept. 13.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2026
Death toll from capsized ship in Indonesia rises to 26 with 109 missing
The ferry was carrying 243 people, including 30 crew members, as well as an unknown number of vehicles, when it capsized in bad weather .
Tomoka Takeishi holds her student ID for Harvard University’s summer school program in June 2025.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Sep 16, 2026
Six months after fatal boat accident in Okinawa, student’s parents want answers
Tomoka Takeishi, 17, died during a school trip that used boats operated by a group that opposes a U.S. military base’s relocation in the prefecture.
A victim of the Virgo Transport 8 passenger ferry accident, which capsized while carrying 243 people on its route to Banjarmasin from Surabaya, on Sunday
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 14, 2026
At least 129 missing after Indonesian passenger ship capsizes
Crews managed to rescue 108 people from the Virgo Transport 8 ship and were still searching for any other survivors.
Three people, including the 76-year-old captain, were confirmed dead after their boat failed to return from a fishing trip off Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Thursday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2026
Three crew members of missing fishing boat found dead off of Miyazaki Prefecture
As the fishing boat has not been located, authorities are continuing the search, including deploying aircraft, while investigating the cause of the incident.
Eiji Hatta, the board of trustees chair of the Doshisha school corporation, announced his intention to resign at an extraordinary board meeting last week, following a deadly boat accident that killed one of its students in March.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 25, 2026
Doshisha board chair to resign over fatal Okinawa boat accident
An external report, released last month, said the Doshisha school corporation breached its obligation to investigate the trip beforehand and plan it safely.
An aerial view shows thick smoke rising from KM Putri Yasmin ferry that caught fire in waters off Lombok, Indonesia, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 13, 2026
One dead, more than 200 rescued after Indonesian ferry from Bali catches fire
The ?incident took place less than a month after another ferry caught fire off Madura island, killing five people.
The two boats that capsized off the Henoko coastal area of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, in March
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2026
Kyoto high school searched over fatal boat accident in Okinawa
Doshisha International Senior High School was raided by the Japan Coast guard on Saturday on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death.
Da Tay Island in the Spratly archipelago on Jan. 6, 2013. After their boat sunk, 33 fishermen from the vessel Khoi Nguyen were brought to Da Tay island, while rescue teams continue to search for 17 still missing.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 26, 2026
17 missing after Vietnamese ship sinks in South China Sea
In a separate incident on Friday, a different Vietnamese vessel sank amid rough seas in the area, with 33 fishermen rescued and three missing
A rescue team searches for survivors after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in November 2025 near the Thailand-Malaysia border. Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 16, 2026
Over 500 feared dead in two suspected shipwrecks off Myanmar, U.N. says
Myanmar’s Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions, traveling aboard rickety boats often operated by trafficking networks.
Seiichi Katsurada, president of tour boat company Shiretoko Yuransen, at the Kushiro District Court in Hokkaido on Wednesday. Katsurada has been sentenced to five years in prison over a deadly boat sinking in 2022.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 17, 2026
Hokkaido tour boat operator sentenced to five years’ jail over fatal 2022 sinking
Eighteen passengers and two crew members died after a tour boat sank on April 23, 2022, off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, with six passengers still unaccounted for.
Bereaved families lay flowers at a memorial ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the sinking of a sightseeing boat off the Shiretoko Peninsula, on Thursday in the town of Shari, Hokkaido.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2026
Victims of Hokkaido tour boat sinking remembered 4 years after
The 2022 accident involving the Kazu I boat in the Shiretoko Peninsula killed 20 people and left six others missing.
Defendant Seiichi Katsurada, president of Shiretoko Yuransen, enters the Kushiro District Court in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2026
Five years sought for head of boat operator over fatal sinking
The court battle is centered on to what extent the head of Shiretoko Yuransen understood the planned course of the Kazu I boat and whether the accident was predictable.
Mohammed Rofique, a survivor from the boat that capsized in the Andaman Sea, speaks on the phone with relatives at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2026
Rohingya survivor recounts ordeal as 250 missing in Andaman Sea tragedy
Before the boat capsized, one ?of the survivors said passengers on the boat endured four days and nights at sea as conditions rapidly deteriorated.
Two boats that capsized — leaving two people dead, including a high school student from Kyoto — in the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 20
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2026
Probe into fatal Okinawa boat incident continues one month on
At the time of the incident, wind speeds of up to 4 meters per second were recorded around the site, and a wave advisory was in place.
Investigators from the Japan Coast Guard seize materials from the office of a civic group in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, which operated boats that capsized in a deadly accident last month during a study trip of students from the Doshisha International Senior High School.
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2026
School operator to face probe over fatal boat accident in Okinawa
Two vessels carrying students from Doshisha International Senior High School capsized while viewing land reclamation work for the planned transfer a U.S. military base.
Damage on the cargo ship was likely caused by a collision with a fishing boat that occurred Tuesday morning.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2026
Four dead in Aomori after cargo ship’s collision with fishing boat
Crew members from the fishing boat said they had stopped the engine early on Tuesday and were preparing to fish when the cargo ship rammed into them.
The Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. Two people died Monday after two boats capsized in the area.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2026
High school student and captain die after boats capsize off Henoko in Okinawa
The boats were carrying students from a high school in Kyoto Prefecture who were visiting Okinawa for peace studies.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
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The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
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