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JCG delivers apology to Taiwan skipper over sinking of his boat

The head of the Japan Coast Guard's Okinawa regional headquarters handed a letter of apology to the captain of a Taiwanese fishing boat that sank in a June 10 collision with a JCG patrol ship, coast guard officials in Tokyo said Friday. The letter was... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Fri, Jun 20 2008

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