'Ghost ship' mystery grips Japan as rickety boats with corpses, skeletons continue to wash ashore

Its a Disease Boat. The diseases within the dead bodies are meant to infect a certain number of people with a deadly strain of a virus that would slowly infect others making them sick and eventually die.

Sounds like pirates to me, at least with the boats where the occupants have been murdered.

a reply to: MrMasterMinder

This stuff really bothers me. I suspect there is a political connection, but you'd think, if they were fleeing, that some would survive. That so many wash up with bodies is more than a little weird. Headless bodies, as in some cases, is even weirder. That isn't lost fishermen!

Something odd about this one, but I can't put m finger on what.

Well that's just creepy as all get out.
And saying that it happens often isn't as comforting as they think it is.

I'll bet someone makes a film about this event.