Japan on Friday deported eight of the 10 crew members of a North Korean fishing boat after they were involved in a theft on a small northern Japanese island last year.Immigration authorities in Sapporo said a plane carrying the eight has left New Chitose Airport. Nine of the 10 were arrested or referred to prosecutors on suspicion of stealing a power generator from a hut on the uninhabited Hokkaido island, but all but the captain were not indicted.The crewmen were believed to have been fishing for squid in the Sea of Japan before their wooden boat was found drifting in waters near the islan…READ FULL ARTICLE
