Hokkaido Boat Operator Head Pleads Not Guilty over Fatal Sinking
Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator 
Kushiro, Hokkaido, Nov. 12 (Jiji Press)--Seiichi Katsurada, president of the operator of a tour boat that sank off the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido in 2022, pleaded not guilty to professional negligence resulting in death in the first hearing of his criminal trial Wednesday. At Kushiro District Court, the 62-year-old president of Shiretoko Yuransen based in the Hokkaido town of...
