3 Japan fishing boat crew dead after collision with Russian ship A Japanese fishing boat collided with a 662-ton Russian ship and capsized off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Wednesday, leaving three crew members dead, local authorities said. Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows a Japanese fishing boat that capsized off Hokkaido's Monbetsu after colliding with a Russian vessel. (Kyodo) The five-crew-member Hokko Maru No. 8 belonging to a fishery cooperative based in Hokkaido's Mombetsu was catching hairy crabs when the collision occurred at around 6 ...