Memorial service held for 9 Ehime Maru victims

UWAJIMA, Japan - People offer silent prayers for the nine Japanese, who died when the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru was struck and sunk by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii, at a memorial service Jan. 10 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. Some 1,200 people attended the ceremony held in the hometown of most of the victims ahead of the first anniversary of the Feb. 9 accident.

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