Japan faced with ghost ships - 11 of them arrive with with decaying bodies

Japan is faced with a unique problem of ghost shops. Eleven of them, some with decaying corpses on board, have arrived off the coast of Japan and, on board, are 20 as-yet-unidentified bodies. These have arrived during the past two months - four of them washed up in early November and another seven were spotted floating in the Sea of Japan during the past three weeks.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 29 November 2015.

In the opinion of experts, the badly damaged vessels may have been at sea for months. One of the ships was sighted by Coastguard about 100-Km offshore on the Sea of Japan. It was towed in at Fukui Port, about 400-Km north of Tokyo and there were three bodies in it.
While authorities have begun investigations as to the origin of the ships, Japanese media have speculated that the boats may have come from North Korea, about 1000-Km across the Sea of Japan. There are Korean writing on the boats and on clothing inside the vessels.
Moreover, the remains of a North Korean flag found on board along with Tangled ropes, hooks and other fishing equipment would tend to suggest that they may be fishing craft from North Korea. Incidentally, fishing ships from the impoverished state have been lost since they do not have modern equipment like GPS installed.
Another suggestion is that the boats might have been fleeing from the oppressive rule of Kim Jong-un and landed in a storm.

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