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Shizuo Kakutani sees no great mystery in the things that wash ashore in Monzen, his quiet fishing village on the Sea of Japan the fishing boats ravaged by fierce winter storms, the Chinese garbage carried to land by the strong winds, the occasional body that drifts in from Yaseno, the nearby cliffs notorious for suicides.
The ghost ships, however, are harder to explain.
On an early morning in November, the 71-year-old retired fisherman received a call from his colleagues at the town's civilian coast guard. A black mass bobbling in the water most likely a boat had been spotted hooked to a distant buoy.
"When I saw the boat, I immediately knew that it was from North Korea," Kakutani said. He had seen similar vessels before no more than 30 feet long, made of wood, its flat-bottomed hull covered in black tar.
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-ghost-ships-20160410-story.html
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)in North Korea!
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)places that are plain horrific!
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)from which I would emigrate at an early age, too much dead stuff washing ashore would send me packing. I grew up along the coast of the Atlantic and am thankful I never had a grisly discovery like that while I was playing along the shore.