U.S. envoy apologizes for loss of Ehime Maru

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. William Fallon, special envoy from Washington, speaks upon arriving at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Feb. 27. He conveyed U.S. apologies to Japan over the Feb. 9 sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese high school fisheries training ship, by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville off Hawaii. Fallon, vice chief of operations in the U.S. Navy, will meet Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to brief him on progress in the investigation into the sub-ship collision.

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