Ehime Maru victims' kin ask U.S. body to investigate accident

Ehime Maru victims' kin ask U.S. body to investigate accident

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Toyoda, chief lawyer for relatives of two of the nine people who died in the sinking of the Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru in 2001, tells reporters in Tokyo that he and his group of lawyers are asking the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to investigate the accident. The ship sank after a U.S. Navy submarine collided with it off Hawaii.

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