Memorial service held for 5 Ehime Maru victims in Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - Japanese Parliamentary Foreign Secretary Toshio Kojima (L) greets relatives of Hirotaka Segawa, killed when the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru was hit and sunk by a U.S. submarine in February, near a church in Honolulu on Oct. 24. A memorial service for five victims whose bodies were recovered from the vessel by the U.S. Navy off Hawaii was held at the church. Of the seven bodies recovered by the Navy, two have yet to be identified.

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