U.S., Ehime Maru kin lawyers hold 1st compensation talks

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Ehime Vice Gov. Nobuyoshi Yano (R) is greeted May 9 by Capt. Carol Cooper from the legal affairs division of the U.S. Navy in Japan in Yokosuka, as he arrives to attend the first round of compensation talks between lawyers for relatives of 25 of 35 Japanese aboard a high school fisheries ship hit and sunk by a U.S. Navy submarine on Feb. 9 and U.S. representatives.

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