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4 dead, 5 missing after 2 freighters collide off E. Japan

NARITA, Japan - Chinese crew members of the 3,947-ton freighter Wei Hang 9 get off the 499-ton freighter Kaishin Maru at Choshi port in Chiba Prefecture on July 22. They were rescued by the Kaishin Maru after the two freighters collided in the Pacific Ocean off the prefecture, killing four Chinese crew members and leaving five others missing.

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1 dead, 8 missing after 2 freighters collide off eastern Japan

CHIBA, Japan - The Kaishin Maru, a Japanese-registered 499-ton freighter owned by Kayama Kaiun K.K. based in Osaka Prefecture, is seen afloat in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Inubosaki in Chiba Prefecture on July 22 after colliding with the Malta-registered Wei Hang 9. The Wei Hang 9, carrying 21 crew members, all Chinese, sank later. A Chinese crew member was killed and eight others were missing, the Japan Coast Guard said.

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Coast Guard inspects bulk carrier that caused collision off Mie

NAGOYA, Japan - The 697-ton Kyokuyo Maru keeps burning off Owase, Mie Prefecture, July 16, one day after it collided with the 499-ton coastal bulk carrier Nikko Maru.

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1 dead, 5 missing as tankers collide off Mie in dense fog

NAGOYA, Japan - The 697-ton fuel tanker Kyokuyo Maru burst into flames off Owase, Mie Prefecture, July 15 after it was rammed by the 499-ton coastal bulk carrier Nikko Maru. One Kykuyo Maru crew member was killed and five others went missing in the collision. All five Nikko Maru crew members were rescued.

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Relatives mark 4th anniversary of Ehime Maru sinking

HAWAII, United States - Relatives of the victims in the 2001 sinking of the Japanese fishery training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii pay tribute Feb. 9 in front of a monument at a seaside park near the accident site. The 499-ton ship sank after being struck from below by the 6,080-ton U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville during a rapid-surfacing demonstration.

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(2)Filipino trainee dies in ship blast

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Firefighters on Nov. 4 examine the 499-ton chemical tanker Enshu Maru, anchored off Hiroshima Prefecture. Earlier in the day, an explosion on the vessel killed a Filipino trainee and injured four workers.

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(2)2 missing after ships collide off Wakayama

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Damage to the bow of the 499-ton freighter Fukujin Maru is seen as the ship is anchored off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture on March 14. It collided with the 426-ton survey vessel Torishima, owned by Tokyo sea survey firm Tankai Senpaku, in the Pacific off Wakayama's Cape Shionomisaki earlier in the day. The Torishima sank and two of its crew went missing.

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Body found inside sunken Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Nel Sheehan speaks at a news conference in Honolulu on Oct. 16. He said U.S. Navy divers found the body of one of nine people who went missing after their 499-ton Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru was struck and sunk off Hawaii by a U.S. submarine in February.

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Inquiry into Ehime Maru accident opens March 5

HONOLULU, U.S. - The U.S. Navy will begin its formal investigative inquiry on March 5 at its Pearl Harbor base into the deadly collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville. A panel of three admirals will hear the arguments and counter-arguments that will determine the fate of the three top officers of the 6,080-ton Greenville, which struck and sank the 499-ton Japanese ship off Hawaii's Oahu Island while demonstrating an emergency surfacing maneuver for 16 civilian guests on Feb. 9.

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Ehime Maru captain returns to Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the 499-ton Ehime Maru which was sunk by the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville off Hawaii on Feb. 9 arrived at Kansai airport from Honolulu on Feb. 24. Onishi is last of the rescued crew members to return home from Hawaii. Nine people -- four 17-year-old high school students, two teachers and three crew members -- are missing following the accident and presumed dead.

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All 16 civilian guests were on Greeneville's command deck

HONOLULU, Hawaii - Using a chart, a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) official briefs reporters Feb. 20 on the Feb. 9 collision between a Japanese fisheries training ship and a U.S. submarine off Hawaii. The official said all 16 civilian guests aboard the navy's 6,080-ton nuclear-powered attack sub Greeneville were on the command deck when it struck and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru from Uwajima Fisheries High School.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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(1)Entire video footage of Ehime Maru shown to families

HONOLULU, United States - Entire video footage of the sunken Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru released by the U.S. Navy on Feb. 19 shows cracks on the 499-ton ship's hull. The footage was released at the request of the families of nine missing Japanese who were dissatisfied with the 35-minute edited version shown to them on February 17.

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Fisheries school asks U.S. to continue search for 9 missing

UWAJIMA, Japan - Uwajima Fisheries High School students submit a petition to the United States calling for the search for the nine Japanese missing in the Feb. 9 collision between their fisheries training ship and a U.S. submarine to continue and for the trawler to be raised as soon as possible. Etsuko Yamaguchi, deputy head of a student council, handed the petition of about 140 signatures to Robert Ludan (R), U.S. Consul General for Osaka and Kobe, who visited the school Feb. 17 to apologize for the accident. The Greeneville crashed into and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru during a rapid-surfacing drill off Hawaii. Four students and two teachers at the school and three crew members of the ship are still missing.

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Unmanned deep-sea probe starts search for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Crew aboard a U.S. Navy ship pilot an unmanned submersible off Oahu Island on Feb. 16 in a search for the Japanese fisheries training ship that sank Feb. 9 after being struck by a Navy submarine. The Scorpio-2 submersible is expected to pinpoint the location of the 499-ton Ehime Maru, which sank in 550 meters of water 18 kilometers south of the island after being hit by the 6,080-ton nuclear sub USS Greeneville as it was surfacing in an emergency drill.

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Ehime Maru captain says not one rescued by sub crew

HONOLULU, United States - The rescued captain of a Japanese ship sunk Feb. 9 by a 6,080-ton U.S. Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine in a collision off Hawaii accuses the sub crew Feb. 10 of doing little to help people from his ship. ''Not one (member of my ship) was rescued by the submarine crew,'' Hisao Onishi, captain of the 499-ton Ehime Maru, a fisheries training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, tearfully told a press conference in Honolulu.

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Kin of Ehime Maru missing arrive in Hawaii+

WASHINGTON, The United States - Thirty-two kin of nine Japanese who went missing when a Japanese fisheries training ship sunk after colliding with a U.S. nuclear submarine near Hawaii are greeted at Honolulu International Airport by Lt. Gen. Thomas Case (above right in blue uniform), deputy commander of U.S. Pacific military forces, on Feb. 11. The relatives were later briefed on the accident, which occurred Feb. 9 about 18 kilometers south of Oahu Island. The Los Angeles-class attack sub USS Greeneville hit and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru, and 26 of the 35 people aboard the trawler were rescued.

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ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 499-ton salvage ship Shinyo Maru (foreground) begins work July 8 to recover an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) transport plane that crashed in the Sea of Japan off Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture, on June 28. In the background is a destroyer. The C-1 transport plane with a crew of five disappeared from radar after taking off from the ASDF Miho base in Tottori Prefecture for a 90-minute test flight. The body of one crew member was found July 4.

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Relatives mark 4th anniversary of Ehime Maru sinking

HAWAII, United States - Relatives of the victims in the 2001 sinking of the Japanese fishery training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii pay tribute Feb. 9 in front of a monument at a seaside park near the accident site. The 499-ton ship sank after being struck from below by the 6,080-ton U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville during a rapid-surfacing demonstration. (Kyodo)

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Coast Guard inspects bulk carrier that caused collision off Mie

NAGOYA, Japan - The 697-ton Kyokuyo Maru keeps burning off Owase, Mie Prefecture, July 16, one day after it collided with the 499-ton coastal bulk carrier Nikko Maru. (Kyodo)

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(2)2 missing after ships collide off Wakayama

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Damage to the bow of the 499-ton freighter Fukujin Maru is seen as the ship is anchored off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture on March 14. It collided with the 426-ton survey vessel Torishima, owned by Tokyo sea survey firm Tankai Senpaku, in the Pacific off Wakayama's Cape Shionomisaki earlier in the day. The Torishima sank and two of its crew went missing. (Kyodo)

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4 dead, 5 missing after 2 freighters collide off E. Japan

NARITA, Japan - Chinese crew members of the 3,947-ton freighter Wei Hang 9 get off the 499-ton freighter Kaishin Maru at Choshi port in Chiba Prefecture on July 22. They were rescued by the Kaishin Maru after the two freighters collided in the Pacific Ocean off the prefecture, killing four Chinese crew members and leaving five others missing. (Kyodo)

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1 dead, 8 missing after 2 freighters collide off eastern Japan

CHIBA, Japan - The Kaishin Maru, a Japanese-registered 499-ton freighter owned by Kayama Kaiun K.K. based in Osaka Prefecture, is seen afloat in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Inubosaki in Chiba Prefecture on July 22 after colliding with the Malta-registered Wei Hang 9. The Wei Hang 9, carrying 21 crew members, all Chinese, sank later. A Chinese crew member was killed and eight others were missing, the Japan Coast Guard said. (Kyodo)

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1 dead, 5 missing as tankers collide off Mie in dense fog

NAGOYA, Japan - The 697-ton fuel tanker Kyokuyo Maru burst into flames off Owase, Mie Prefecture, July 15 after it was rammed by the 499-ton coastal bulk carrier Nikko Maru. One Kykuyo Maru crew member was killed and five others went missing in the collision. All five Nikko Maru crew members were rescued. (Kyodo)

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(2)Filipino trainee dies in ship blast

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Firefighters on Nov. 4 examine the 499-ton chemical tanker Enshu Maru, anchored off Hiroshima Prefecture. Earlier in the day, an explosion on the vessel killed a Filipino trainee and injured four workers. (Kyodo)

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(1)Filipino trainee dies in ship blast

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Anthony Bulan Batilarran, a trainee from the Philippines, died Nov. 4 in an explosion on the 499-ton chemical tanker Enshu Maru off Hiroshima Prefecture. The blast injured four other workers. (Kyodo)

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(1)Entire video footage of Ehime Maru shown to families

HONOLULU, United States - Entire video footage of the sunken Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru released by the U.S. Navy on Feb. 19 shows cracks on the 499-ton ship's hull. The footage was released at the request of the families of nine missing Japanese who were dissatisfied with the 35-minute edited version shown to them on February 17.

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(1)2 missing after ships collide off Wakayama

WAKAYAMA, Japan - The 426-ton survey vessel Torishima of Tankai Senpaku, a Tokyo-based deep-sea survey company, sank after colliding with the 499-ton freighter Fukujin Maru in the Pacific off Cape Shionomisaki, Wakayama Prefecture, on March 14. Two of its crew went missing. Photo provided by Tankai Senpaku. (Kyodo)

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Body found inside sunken Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Nel Sheehan speaks at a news conference in Honolulu on Oct. 16. He said U.S. Navy divers found the body of one of nine people who went missing after their 499-ton Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru was struck and sunk off Hawaii by a U.S. submarine in February.

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Inquiry into Ehime Maru accident opens March 5

HONOLULU, U.S. - The U.S. Navy will begin its formal investigative inquiry on March 5 at its Pearl Harbor base into the deadly collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville. A panel of three admirals will hear the arguments and counter-arguments that will determine the fate of the three top officers of the 6,080-ton Greenville, which struck and sank the 499-ton Japanese ship off Hawaii's Oahu Island while demonstrating an emergency surfacing maneuver for 16 civilian guests on Feb. 9.

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Ehime Maru captain returns to Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the 499-ton Ehime Maru which was sunk by the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville off Hawaii on Feb. 9 arrived at Kansai airport from Honolulu on Feb. 24. Onishi is last of the rescued crew members to return home from Hawaii. Nine people -- four 17-year-old high school students, two teachers and three crew members -- are missing following the accident and presumed dead.

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All 16 civilian guests were on Greeneville's command deck

HONOLULU, Hawaii - Using a chart, a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) official briefs reporters Feb. 20 on the Feb. 9 collision between a Japanese fisheries training ship and a U.S. submarine off Hawaii. The official said all 16 civilian guests aboard the navy's 6,080-ton nuclear-powered attack sub Greeneville were on the command deck when it struck and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru from Uwajima Fisheries High School.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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U.S. Navy shows families video of sunken ship

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. Navy on Feb. 17 showed video footage of a fisheries training ship sunk Feb. 9 by a U.S. submarine to relatives of the Japanese missing in the collision. The videotapes were taken by the Navy's remote control Scorpio-2 submersible, which detected the wreckage of the 499-ton Ehime Maru of Uwajima Fisheries High School on Feb. 16. The ship was found lying on the seabed some 600 meters underwater off Oahu Island. The submersible has not yet found any of the nine missing people. The Ehime Maru was struck by the 6,080-ton nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville while the U.S. vessel was making a rapid ascent.

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Unmanned deep-sea probe starts search for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Crew aboard a U.S. Navy ship pilot an unmanned submersible off Oahu Island on Feb. 16 in a search for the Japanese fisheries training ship that sank Feb. 9 after being struck by a Navy submarine. The Scorpio-2 submersible is expected to pinpoint the location of the 499-ton Ehime Maru, which sank in 550 meters of water 18 kilometers south of the island after being hit by the 6,080-ton nuclear sub USS Greeneville as it was surfacing in an emergency drill.

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Fisheries school asks U.S. to continue search for 9 missing

UWAJIMA, Japan - Uwajima Fisheries High School students submit a petition to the United States calling for the search for the nine Japanese missing in the Feb. 9 collision between their fisheries training ship and a U.S. submarine to continue and for the trawler to be raised as soon as possible. Etsuko Yamaguchi, deputy head of a student council, handed the petition of about 140 signatures to Robert Ludan (R), U.S. Consul General for Osaka and Kobe, who visited the school Feb. 17 to apologize for the accident. The Greeneville crashed into and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru during a rapid-surfacing drill off Hawaii. Four students and two teachers at the school and three crew members of the ship are still missing.

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Kin of Ehime Maru missing arrive in Hawaii+

WASHINGTON, The United States - Thirty-two kin of nine Japanese who went missing when a Japanese fisheries training ship sunk after colliding with a U.S. nuclear submarine near Hawaii are greeted at Honolulu International Airport by Lt. Gen. Thomas Case (above right in blue uniform), deputy commander of U.S. Pacific military forces, on Feb. 11. The relatives were later briefed on the accident, which occurred Feb. 9 about 18 kilometers south of Oahu Island. The Los Angeles-class attack sub USS Greeneville hit and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru, and 26 of the 35 people aboard the trawler were rescued.

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ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 499-ton salvage ship Shinyo Maru (foreground) begins work July 8 to recover an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) transport plane that crashed in the Sea of Japan off Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture, on June 28. In the background is a destroyer. The C-1 transport plane with a crew of five disappeared from radar after taking off from the ASDF Miho base in Tottori Prefecture for a 90-minute test flight. The body of one crew member was found July 4.