Victims’ families to sue Japanese tour boat operator over deadly sinking

The ill-fated tour boat Kazu I, which sank off Japan's main island of Hokkaido on April 23, 2022. Fourteen of the 26 people who were on board the vessel that day are confirmed to have died.

Japanese news outlet The Asahi Shimbun reports that the families of some of the deceased victims of a tour boat sinking that occurred off Japan’s Hokkaido island two years prior intend to press charges against the vessel’s operating company and its president in relation to the incident. Lawyers representing the families confirmed that a civil […]

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