8 bodies found on boat washed ashore in northern Japan

A wooden boat, apparently from North Korea, is found washed ashore with eight bodies on a beach in the city of Oga, Akita Prefecture in northern Japan on Nov. 27, 2017. It was the latest in a string of discoveries of unidentified boats washed ashore on the Japanese coast along the Sea of Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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