21.   The Russian Coast Guard last November fired on a Japanese fishing boast and injured a crewmember.

22.   Twenty fellow Japanese fishing boats were joining the rescue effort, he added.

23.   Japanese diplomatic sources quoted by the local press have said Ikeda will also demand an early conclusion of negotiations over Japanese fishing in waters around the islands.

24.   Japanese coastguards Friday found all eight crew members of a fire-struck Japanese fishing boat drifting on a life raft in the western Pacific, officials said.

25.   Japanese diplomatic sources quoted by the press have said Ikeda will also demand an early conclusion of negotiations over Japanese fishing in waters around the islands.