Buddhist monks in Hawaii pray for rescue of missing 9

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows Ryokan Ara, a 72-year-old priest at a Tendai Sect temple in Honolulu, who is one of several Japanese Buddhist monks in Hawaii who have been praying for the rescue of nine Japanese missing since the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese high school fisheries training ship by a U.S. submarine off the island of Oahu. ''We feel pain thinking about the families of the missing people. We hope they will return safe,'' Ara said.

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