The Latest Breaking News from Shiretoko Peninsula

Shiretoko tour boat likely flooded through hatch

The Kazu I sightseeing boat, which sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in April with 26 people aboard, likely flooded because the bow hatch was not closed, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Friday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Dec 9, 2022

6 months on, search continues for victims of Shiretoko boat tragedy

SAPPORO -- With Sunday marking six months since a sightseeing boat sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido with no survivors among the 26 passengers and crew members, authorities were engaged in an intensive search for the six whose remains have still not been found.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Oct 23, 2022

JCG collects bodies of suspected Shiretoko victims from Sakhalin

Japan's 1st Regional Coast Guard Headquarters said Friday that it collected from Russia the bodies of three people believed to have been aboard the Kazu I sightseeing boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in April.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Sep 9, 2022

Salvage work resumes for Kazu I after major setback

Work to lift the sunken Kazu I resumed off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido after the sightseeing boat fell deeper into the sea during salvage efforts earlier this week, the Japan Coast Guard announced Thursday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · May 26, 2022

Sunken Kazu I tour boat had nonregulation radio

The company that operated the Kazu I sightseeing boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido with 26 people aboard was using a ham radio -- instead of a professional radio as called for by its own safety manual -- to communicate with the ship, and the operator had…

The Japan News/Yomiuri · May 10, 2022

Inquiries start into disappearance of Japan tourist boat, with at least 11 dead

Inquiries began into what caused the disappearance of a Japanese tour boat off the nation's northern coast as search efforts intensified on Monday to find the boat and its missing passengers, with the confirmed death toll rising to 11.

Reuters · Apr 25, 2022

Ten people confirmed dead after Japan tourist boat sinks with 16 still missing

Out of a total of 26 occupants, 10 people have been confirmed dead by the coastgaurd after a search of the tip of Shiretoko Peninsula in northern Japan

Daily Mirror · Apr 24, 2022

Ten people confirmed dead after tourist boat sinks off Japan

Rescuers found four people near the tip of Shiretoko Peninsula and five more people in the same area a few hours later

Evening Standard · Apr 24, 2022

9 people from stricken tour boat off Hokkaido found, 8 unresponsive

SAPPORO: Ten people were confirmed dead Sunday after a tourist boat with a total of 26 passengers and crew aboard went missing in rough waters the previous day off a World Heritage site on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, the country's coast guard said.

Bangkok Post · Apr 24, 2022

Tourist boat with 26 people aboard missing after ‘sinking’ off Japan

The Kazu 1 made a distress call in the early afternoon local time, saying the ship’s bow had flooded and was beginning to sink and tilt off the western coast of Shiretoko Peninsula

Evening Standard · Apr 23, 2022