Ehime Maru kin hire lawyers for damages talks

Ehime Maru kin hire lawyers for damages talks

TOKYO, Japan - Ryosuke Terata (R), whose student son Yusuke has been missing after the collision of the high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru with a U.S. Navy submarine, meets the press in Tokyo with lawyers on May 10. Terata and other relatives of eight of 35 Japanese who were aboard the ship have appointed a group of lawyers to conduct compensation talks with the United States, and may file a lawsuit against it.

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