Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16.

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