The Maritime Self-Defense Force on Tuesday recalled its warships from the search for the missing father and son whose fishing boat was run over by a destroyer last month.
The MSDF will continue devoting aircraft to the search.
Also Tuesday, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology discovered part of the wheelhouse of the fishing trawler Seitoku Maru's wheelhouse before ending its deep-sea probe.
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