Ehime Maru captain arrives in Japan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The captain of a Japanese fisheries training ship from Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, sunk early in February by the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville expresses deep sadness over the nine still missing on his return home Feb. 24. ''To return home without the (missing) nine is unbearable for me. I can do nothing but apologize to their family members,'' Hisao Onishi, 58, told a news conference the same night at the Ehime prefectural government office in Matsuyama.

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