Russia hands drifted Japanese student over to Japan

NEMURO, Japan - Photo shows a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship at Nemuro port in Hokkaido on Aug. 25, 2011, which brought back drifted Japanese national Keisuke Kuriyama back to Japan. Russia handed the 37-year-old medical student of the University of the Ryukyus to the Japanese authorities after detaining him for an alleged unauthorized trip to one of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan.

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