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4 dead, 5 missing after 2 freighters collide off E. Japan

NARITA, Japan - Chinese crew members of the 3,947-ton freighter Wei Hang 9 get off the 499-ton freighter Kaishin Maru at Choshi port in Chiba Prefecture on July 22. They were rescued by the Kaishin Maru after the two freighters collided in the Pacific Ocean off the prefecture, killing four Chinese crew members and leaving five others missing.

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1 dead, 8 missing after 2 freighters collide off eastern Japan

CHIBA, Japan - Cracks are seen in the bow section of the Japanese-registered freighter Kaishin Maru which collided with a Malta-registered freighter Wei Hang 9 in the Pacific Ocean off Chiba Prefecture early July 22. A Chinese crew member of the Wei Hang 9 was killed and eight others were missing, the Japan Coast Guard said.

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1 dead, 8 missing after 2 freighters collide off eastern Japan

CHIBA, Japan - The Kaishin Maru, a Japanese-registered 499-ton freighter owned by Kayama Kaiun K.K. based in Osaka Prefecture, is seen afloat in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Inubosaki in Chiba Prefecture on July 22 after colliding with the Malta-registered Wei Hang 9. The Wei Hang 9, carrying 21 crew members, all Chinese, sank later. A Chinese crew member was killed and eight others were missing, the Japan Coast Guard said.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

The barge Kaishin carrying a sunken tour boat covered with a blue tarpaulin berths at the port of Abashiri in Hokkaido on May 27, 2022. The tour boat Kazu I, which went missing in late April with 26 people aboard during a three-hour cruise around the Shiretoko Peninsula on the northernmost main Japanese island, will be examined to determine the cause of the deadly incident.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

The barge Kaishin (top) is pictured off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan, on May 26, 2022, as the second attempt begins to salvage a tourist boat that sank in late April with 26 people aboard. The boat dropped back to the seabed at a depth of 182 meters while being towed by a salvage company on May 24.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

The barge Kaishin is pictured off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan, on May 26, 2022, as the second attempt begins to salvage a tourist boat that sank in late April with 26 people aboard. The boat dropped back to the seabed at a depth of 182 meters while being towed by a salvage company on May 24.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 25, 2022, shows the barge Kaishin (front) under preparation for the lifting of a sunken tour boat from a depth of about 180 meters off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. The tour boat, which went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard, was pulled up from a depth of about 120 meters to near the sea surface on May 23 but dropped back to the seabed the following day while being towed toward shallow waters.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 25, 2022, shows the barge Kaishin under preparation for the lifting of a sunken tour boat from a depth of about 180 meters off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. The tour boat, which went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard, was pulled up from a depth of about 120 meters to near the sea surface on May 23 but dropped back to the seabed the following day while being towed toward shallow waters.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 25, 2022, shows the barge Kaishin under preparation for the lifting of a sunken tour boat from a depth of about 180 meters off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. The tour boat, which went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard, was pulled up from a depth of about 120 meters to near the sea surface on May 23 but dropped back to the seabed the following day while being towed toward shallow waters.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 25, 2022, shows the barge Kaishin under preparation for the lifting of a sunken tour boat from a depth of about 180 meters off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. The tour boat, which went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard, was pulled up from a depth of about 120 meters to near the sea surface on May 23 but dropped back to the seabed the following day while being towed toward shallow waters.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken May 23, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaishin barge (L, top) salvaging a sunken tour boat (in the water) off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The Kazu I boat, which went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard, was pulled up from a depth of about 120 meters to near the sea surface on May 23 but fell to the 180-meter-deep seabed the following day while being towed toward shallow waters.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken May 23, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaishin barge (L) salvaging a sunken tour boat (in the water) off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The Kazu I boat, which went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard, was pulled up from a depth of about 120 meters to near the sea surface on May 23 but fell to the 180-meter-deep seabed the following day while being towed toward shallow waters.

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Sunken Hokkaido tour boat drops deeper in sea while being towed

Photo taken May 24, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows workers on the barge Kaishin off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. A sightseeing boat that sank off Hokkaido around a month earlier dropped deeper into the sea the same day while being towed by a salvage company for loading onto the barge.

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Sunken Hokkaido tour boat drops deeper in sea while being towed

Photo taken May 24, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the barge Kaishin off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. A sightseeing boat that sank off Hokkaido around a month earlier dropped deeper into the sea the same day while being towed by a salvage company for loading onto the barge.

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Sunken Hokkaido tour boat drops deeper in sea while being towed

The barge Kaishin is pictured off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan, on May 24, 2022. A sightseeing boat that sank off Hokkaido around a month earlier dropped deeper into the sea the same day while being towed by a salvage company for loading onto the barge.

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Sunken Hokkaido tour boat drops deeper in sea while being towed

Photo taken May 24, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the barge Kaishin (bottom) off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. A sightseeing boat that sank off Hokkaido around a month earlier dropped deeper into the sea the same day while being towed by a salvage company for loading onto the barge.

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Sunken Hokkaido tour boat drops deeper in sea while being towed

The barge Kaishin (R) is pictured off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan, on May 24, 2022. A sightseeing boat that sank off Hokkaido around a month earlier dropped deeper into the sea the same day while being towed by a salvage company for loading onto the barge.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken May 23, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaishin barge as the full-scale operation began the same day to salvage a sunken boat on the seabed around 120 meters below the water surface off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The Kazu I tour boat went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard.

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Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken May 23, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaishin barge as the full-scale operation began the same day to salvage a sunken boat on the seabed around 120 meters below the water surface off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The Kazu I tour boat went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard.

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Deepwater divers search sunken boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaishin barge on May 20, 2022, from which a deepwater search is being undertaken inside a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on April 23 with 26 people aboard. Divers searched the tour boat, located about 120 meters below the sea surface, using a special technique known as saturation diving.

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Deepwater divers search sunken boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaishin barge on May 20, 2022, from which a deepwater search is being undertaken inside a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on April 23 with 26 people aboard. Divers searched the tour boat, located about 120 meters below the sea surface, using a special technique known as saturation diving.

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Deepwater divers search sunken boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaishin barge on May 20, 2022, from which a deepwater search is being undertaken inside a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on April 23 with 26 people aboard. Divers searched the tour boat, located about 120 meters below the sea surface, using a special technique known as saturation diving.

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Divers to search inside sunken Hokkaido tour boat

Preparations are under way on the vessel Kaishin at Abashiri port in Hokkaido on May 18, 2022, ahead of its departure for a search inside a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island last month, leaving 14 people dead and 12 missing. The divers aboard the vessel will attempt a special technique, known as saturation diving, for working at great depths.

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Divers to search inside sunken Hokkaido tour boat

Preparations are under way on the vessel Kaishin at Abashiri port in Hokkaido on May 18, 2022, ahead of its departure for a search inside a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island last month, leaving 14 people dead and 12 missing. The divers aboard the vessel will attempt a special technique, known as saturation diving, for working at great depths.

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Divers to search inside sunken Hokkaido tour boat

Preparations are under way on the vessel Kaishin at Abashiri port in Hokkaido on May 18, 2022, ahead of its departure for a search inside a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan's northernmost main island last month, leaving 14 people dead and 12 missing. The divers aboard the vessel will attempt a special technique, known as saturation diving, for working at great depths.

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4 dead, 5 missing after 2 freighters collide off E. Japan

NARITA, Japan - Chinese crew members of the 3,947-ton freighter Wei Hang 9 get off the 499-ton freighter Kaishin Maru at Choshi port in Chiba Prefecture on July 22. They were rescued by the Kaishin Maru after the two freighters collided in the Pacific Ocean off the prefecture, killing four Chinese crew members and leaving five others missing. (Kyodo)

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1 dead, 8 missing after 2 freighters collide off eastern Japan

CHIBA, Japan - The Kaishin Maru, a Japanese-registered 499-ton freighter owned by Kayama Kaiun K.K. based in Osaka Prefecture, is seen afloat in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Inubosaki in Chiba Prefecture on July 22 after colliding with the Malta-registered Wei Hang 9. The Wei Hang 9, carrying 21 crew members, all Chinese, sank later. A Chinese crew member was killed and eight others were missing, the Japan Coast Guard said. (Kyodo)

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Two men

Two men with mustaches pose at a photograph studio. They wear kimono with long haori jackets. The man in the chair wears a hat, while the man standing is holding his hat in his hand. The forest and river in morning mist behind them is a scene pained on a prop. The word Shinkyo visible on the lower right indicates that this was taken at either the Tomoe Studio or Miyake Kaishin-do at Shinkyogoku Rokkaku-sagaru.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐187‐0]