Fisherman shot dead for sake of a haul of crab in islands dispute - Times Online

From Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo Mikhail Galuzin, the acting Russian ambassador, faces questions in Toyko (KATSUMI KASAHARA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES) RUSSIAN coastguards patrolling a disputed chain of islands shot dead a Japanese fisherman yesterday, in the contested territory’s first fatal incident for half a century. Mitsuhiro Morita, 25, from the far-northern town of Nemuro, was shot through the head as he was hunting for crabs in the Habomai islets, which are claimed by Japan but occupied ...