Kyushu Railway, or JR Kyushu, mentioned Wednesday that its jet ferry subsidiary coated up a water leak on a high-speed passenger ship linking Japan and South Korea for over three months.
The unit, JR Kyushu Jet Ferry, operated the Queen Beetle high-speed ferry linking the Hakata district of the town of Fukuoka and the South Korean metropolis of Busan, regardless of the water ingress.
It discovered that the cover-up was ordered by the subsidiary’s management and changed its president, Wataru Tanaka, with board director Kenji Oba on Tuesday.