Monument unveiled for 9 Japanese lost in sub collision

Monument unveiled for 9 Japanese lost in sub collision

HONOLULU, United States - A Japanese teacher and four students lay wreaths at a monument unveiled in a ceremony in Hawaii on Feb. 9, one year after the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville struck and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii. Some 200 people took part in the ceremony for the monument to commemorate the nine Japanese killed in the collision. The four students, from Uwajima Fisheries High School, were among those rescued in the collision.

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