Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, the captain of the crab fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, attends a hearing at the South Kuril District Court in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island on Sept. 21. The Russian court ordered him to pay about 500,000 rubles ($12,700, or 2.2 million yen) in fines and damages for intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed territorial waters just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in mid-August. (Kyodo)

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