A sunken sightseeing boat was pulled up to near the surface of the sea off Hokkaido on Monday, one month after it went down off eastern Hokkaido in rough weather, leaving 14 people dead and 12 others missing.A barge operated by Nippon Salvage Co. raised the 19-ton Kazu I from the depths of about 120 meters using wire, after, according to the coast guard, three divers went to the sea bottom inside a capsule and worked with the wire in an operation known as deepwater diving.Later the boat, which went missing off the Shiretoko Peninsula on April 23 with 24 tourists and two crew members aboard,…READ FULL ARTICLE