He knows that would break his father's heart: the old man fished all his life to pay for their crab boat, Koseimaru.

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There is no shortage of hard work on the deck of a crab boat, requiring a level of physical effort that would make most people crumble or cry.

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Now 80 years old, he still heads out in his boat every day, bringing in mostly rock crab and small fish called smelts.

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