The president of a tourist boat operator was found guilty on Wednesday of professional negligence resulting in the deaths of 26 people on a vessel that sank off Hokkaido in 2022.The Kushiro District Court sentenced Seiichi Katsurada, 62, to five years in prison. Katsurada's defense team, which argued he was not guilty of the charge as he could not have foreseen the sinking, immediately appealed the ruling.The 19-ton Kazu I sank on April 23, 2022, during a cruise around the Shiretoko Peninsula, a World Natural Heritage site on Japan's northern main island. Katsurada was not onboard the vesse…READ FULL ARTICLE