Sakurada meets U.S. Pacific forces' deputy commander

HONOLULU, United States - Yoshitaka Sakurada (R), Japanese lawmaker and parliamentary foreign secretary, meets Lt. Gen. Thomas Case (3rd from L), deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific forces, at the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu on Feb. 14. Sakurada voiced his regret over the report that two civilians had been sitting at the helms position of the U.S. sub Greeneville during a rapid-surfacing drill at the time of the collision with a Japanese trawler for trainees.

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