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Sea phone installed in Rausu for grieving families

A black rotary telephone called “Umi no Denwa” was installed beside the sea in Rausu, Hokkaido, on Nov. 1, giving people a place to send thoughts to those killed or missing in the 2022 Kazu I sinking. Fisherman Kenji Sakurai proposed the phone after seeing victims’ families’ suffering at the trial of the boat operator’s president.

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