Donations handed to Ehime Maru families

HONOLULU, United States - Earl Okawa, executive director of the Japan-America Society of Hawaii, on March 6 presents donations as a token of sympathy to Ryosuke Terata, representative of the family members of nine Japanese boys and men lost and presumed dead in the Feb. 9 collision between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fisheries training ship.

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