Japan lawmaker raps gov't over Russia's shooting of Japan boat

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, an outspoken lawmaker from Hokkaido, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Aug. 24. He criticized the Japanese government for what he sees as its inappropriate handling of an incident last week in which Russian authorities shot at and seized a Japanese fishing boat leaving one of the crew members dead in waters off Hokkaido.

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