Japan, Russia conduct joint drill to counter smugglers

OTARU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard Commandant Hisayasu Suzuki (L) and Russia's Border Guard Service chief Vladimir Pronichev shake hands off Otaru, Hokkaido, on June 22, 2012, after inspecting a joint exercise by a regional office of the Japan Coast Guard in Hokkaido and Russia's border security authority for the Sakhalin coast conducted to better counter smuggling.