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24th anniversary of Ehime Maru collision off Hawaii

Photo taken on Feb. 9, 2025, shows a cenotaph built in Hawaii's Honolulu in memory of those killed in a fatal collision between the Ehime Maru training boat of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Japan's Ehime Prefecture and a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii in 2001. The collision claimed the lives of four students, two teachers and three crew members exactly 24 years earlier.

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24th anniversary of Ehime Maru collision off Hawaii

Fumiaki Okahara, mayor of Uwajima, a western Japan city, prays at a memorial ceremony held in Hawaii's Honolulu on Feb. 9, 2025, to mark the 24th anniversary of a fatal collision between the Ehime Maru training boat of Uwajima Fisheries High School and a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii in 2001. The collision claimed the lives of four students, two teachers and three crew members.

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Honolulu, Uwajima celebrate 10th anniversary of sisterhood

HONOLULU, United States - A float used in a festival in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, is introduced during a ceremony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Uwajima-Honolulu sister-city relationship in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 13, 2014. The relationship was established in June 2004, over three years after the the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru was struck by a U.S. navy submarine and sank.

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Ehime Maru-Greeneville collision anniversary

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Relatives of the victims of the Ehime Maru, the fishing training boat that was involved in a collision with U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville off Hawaii that claimed the lives of nine aboard the boat, offer flowers at a monument at Uwajima Fisheries High School in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012. The fisheries training school held a memorial service to mark the 11th anniversary of the incident.

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PM Noda at monument of Ehime Maru accident in Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) offers flowers at a monument for the Ehime Maru accident, a collision between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fisheries school training boat in 2001, in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Nov. 12, 2011. Noda is visiting Hawaii to attend the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and hold talks with leaders of countries. (Pool Photo)

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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

HONOLULU, United States - Bereaved relatives offer flowers as a ceremony is held at a cenotaph in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 9, 2011, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collision between the Japanese fisheries school boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.

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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

HONOLULU, United States - A ceremony is held at a cenotaph in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 9, 2011, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collision between the Japanese fisheries school boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.

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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Students of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture offer flowers at a cenotaph in the school premises to commemorate the collision between the school's fisheries boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii on the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 10, 2011. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.

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10th anniv. of fatal collision off Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Members of a local group associated with Yamaguchi Prefecture clean a monument for the victims of a collision, in which a U.S. submarine hit and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, at a park in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 5, 2011, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 9. Nine people aboard the boat died in the incident.

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10th anniv. of fatal collision off Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - A member of a local group associated with Yamaguchi Prefecture cleans a monument for the victims of a collision, in which a U.S. submarine hit and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, at a park in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 5, 2011, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 9. Nine people aboard the boat died in the incident.

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Ex-U.S. sub captain speaks on collision anniversary

CARY, United States - Scott Waddle, a former captain of the U.S. submarine Greeneville that was involved in a collision with the Japanese fisheries school boat Ehime Maru, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Cary, North Carolina, on Feb. 4, 2011. The Feb. 9, 2001, collision off Hawaii killed nine people on the Ehime Maru -- four middle school students, two teachers and three crew members.

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Memorial held on 9th anniv. of ship collision with U.S. sub

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi speaks to a Kyodo News reporter on Feb. 9, 2010, in Kakaako Waterfront Park in Honolulu, Hawaii, where a ninth-year memorial ceremony was held for the nine Japanese who died in a collision between Japanese fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in the waters off Hawaii. Mizuguchi lost his 17-year-old son, Takeshi, in the accident.

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Memorial held on 9th anniv. of ship collision with U.S. sub

HONOLULU, United States - Uwajima Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi speaks in front of a memorial cenotaph at Kakaako Waterfront Park in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 9, 2010, during the ninth-year memorial service for the nine Japanese victims of a ship collision between fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine. About 60 people attended the service at the park, which overlooks the site of the accident.

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Memorial held on 9th anniv. of ship collision with U.S. sub

MATSUYAMA, Japan - People offer prayers at Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture on Feb. 10, 2010, during a ninth-year memorial service for the nine victims of the 2001 collision between fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii. Some 300 people attended the ceremony.

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Memorials in Japan, Hawaii mark 8th anniv. of Ehime Maru disaster

HONOLULU, United States - People lay flowers at a monument dedicated to the nine victims of a Feb. 9, 2001 fatal collision between a Japanese fishing training boat, the Ehime Maru, and a U.S. submarine, the Greeneville, during a ceremony to mark the eighth anniversary of the accident, at Kaka'ako Waterfront Park in Honolulu on Feb. 9. Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi, who lost his 17-year-old son Takeshi in the accident, said, ''I really appreciate so many people attending the ceremony every year.'' The monument was built using the Ehime Maru's anchor.

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New pictures stir memories of Hawaii training boat tragedy

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi recounts memories of his son Takeshi who was killed in a collision between the Japanese fisheries training boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville in Hawaii on Feb. 9, 2001, during an interview with Kyodo News in Honolulu on Feb. 8. Mizuguchi, sitting beside a photo of Takeshi, newly released snapshots and videos which were restored from Takeshi's digital camera. Mizuguchi's son is the only victim whose body remains missing in the accident, which killed nine including Takeshi and three other students of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture.

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Lower house speaker Kono prays for Pearl Harbor war dead

HONOLULU, United States - Japan's House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono offers a silent prayer in front of a cenotaph in Oahu on Dec. 28 commemorating the nine people who perished in the 2001 sinking by a U.S. submarine of a Japanese high school fishing ship, the Ehime Maru, off the island.

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Memorial ceremony held to mark 7th anniversary of Ehime Maru sinking

HONOLULU, United States - People lay flowers during a ceremony held at Kakaaka Waterfront Park in Honolulu on Feb. 9 to mark the seventh anniversary of the 2001 sinking of a fisheries high school training ship by the U.S. submarine Greeneville in waters off Hawaii, in which nine people died.

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Memorial ceremony held to mark 7th anniversary of Ehime Maru sinking

UWAJIMA, Japan - A mourner offers a silent prayer during a ceremony held at Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture on Feb. 10 to mark the seventh anniversary of the 2001 sinking of a training ship by the U.S. submarine Greeneville in waters off Hawaii, in which nine people died.

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Memorial ceremony held for fatal sinking of Japanese ship

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi, the father of Takeshi, one of the nine Japanese students and crew who perished in the 2001 sinking of the Japanese ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine off the Hawaiian island of Oahu, addresses a memorial ceremony at a waterfront park near Honolulu on Feb. 9.

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Former skipper of nuke sub still seeking for forgiveness

SEATTLE, United States - Retired Navy Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the 6,080-ton U.S. Navy nuclear submarine that struck and sunk the Japanese fishery school training vessel Ehime Maru off Hawaii five years ago, speaks with Kyodo News in Seattle on Feb. 9. He said he is still haunted by the memory of the accident and his sorrow and remorse for what the victims and their family suffered has never been faded.

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Ehime school marks 5th anniversary of Ehime Maru sinking

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Relatives of people who died in the sinking of the fishery training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii by a surfacing U.S. nuclear submarine offer flowers on Feb. 10 at a ceremony at the Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture. The school held a memorial service to mark the fifth anniversary of the accident in which nine people died.

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Relatives pray for Ehime Maru victims in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Thirteen relatives of three people who died in the 2001 sinking of the Japanese fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii pray for the victims at a memorial in the Kaka'ako seaside park on Oahu Island on Feb. 9 in a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the sinking.

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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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Ehime Maru victims remembered

HONOLULU, United States - Crew members of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Narushio lay flowers and stand at salute on June 30 at the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the Japanese fishery training ship Ehime Maru which sank after collision with the U.S. Navy submarine Greenville off Hawaii in February 2001.

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Uwajima school observes 3rd anniversary of Ehime Maru sinking

UWAJIMA, Japan - The Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture marked on Feb. 10 the third anniversary of the sinking off Hawaii of the Ehime Maru training ship after it was accidentally rammed by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville. Relatives of the nine people who died in the incident contribute flowers at a memorial cenotaph in a ceremony at the school.

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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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Ehime governor visits Hawaii monument for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and prefectural officials place flowers and pray before a monument in Honolulu, Hawaii, to the nine Japanese killed in February 2001, when their fisheries training ship was struck by a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine off Hawaii.

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(2)New Ehime Maru returns home from Honolulu

UWAJIMA, Japan - Uwajima Fisheries High School students welcome the home return of the new Ehime Maru at Uwajima port on July 7 after the ship's two-month training voyage which included a port call in Honolulu. The ship was built to replace the fisheries training vessel of the same name that sank after being rammed by a surfacing U.S. submarine in February 2001.

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(1)New Ehime Maru returns home from Honolulu

UWAJIMA, Japan - Students from Uwajima Fisheries High School (R side) line up aboard the new Ehime Maru on July 7 as they returned home to Uwajima port, Ehime Prefecture, after a two-month training voyage which included a port call in Honolulu. The ship was built to replace the fisheries training vessel of the same name that sank after being rammed by a surfacing U.S. submarine in February 2001.

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New Ehime Maru heads for home after port call in Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - The new Ehime Maru leaves Honolulu for home on June 21. The Japanese ship, built to replace the old fisheries training ship of the same name that sank after colliding with a U.S. submarine in February 2001, is expected to arrive at Ehime Prefecture's Uwajima port on July 6.

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New Ehime Maru makes first port call at Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - Crew members, teachers and students of Uwajima Fisheries High School from Japan's Ehime Prefecture attend a welcoming ceremony June 17 in Honolulu after their training ship, the new Ehime Maru, arrived there. The new vessel was built to replace the old Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii in February 2001.

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(2)New Ehime Maru sets sail for training off Hawaii

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A newly built fisheries training ship, the Ehime Maru, leaves Uwajima port in Ehime Prefecture, on May 7 for Hawaii on a maiden trip as well-wishers bid farewell. The old Ehime Maru sank off Hawaii in February 2001 after colliding with a U.S. submarine.

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(1)New Ehime Maru sets sail for training off Hawaii

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Uwajima Fisheries High School students bid farewell to well-wishers at Uwajima port in Ehime Prefecture on May 7 as a newly built fisheries training ship, the Ehime Maru, leaves for Hawaii on a maiden trip. The old Ehime Maru sank off Hawaii in February 2001 after colliding with a U.S. submarine.

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Memorial ceremony for Ehime Maru victims held in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Family members of Japanese victims who were killed when the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville struck and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii, offer flowers at a cenotaph at Kaka'ako Waterfront Park in Honolulu on Feb. 9 during a ceremony to mark the two-year anniversary of the collision.

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U.S. Navy signs deal with kin of 2 Ehime Maru victims

TOKYO, Japan - Richard Evans (2nd from R, front) of the U.S. Navy signs a compensation settlement at the U.S. Embassy on Jan. 31 with the families of two people who died in the sinking of the high school fisheries ship Ehime Maru in a collision with the U.S. submarine Greeneville off Hawaii two years ago. The two were Yusuke Terata, 17, a student at Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture, and Toshimichi Furuya, 47, chief engineer of the Ehime Maru. (Pool photo)

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Waddle leaves Ehime Prefecture for Tokyo

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Scott Waddle, former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, arrives at Matsuyama Airport in Ehime Prefecture on Dec. 16 to board a plane bound for Tokyo. Waddle visited Uwajima in the prefecture on Dec. 15 to apologize to some of the surviving victims of last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the Uwajima Fisheries High School's training ship Ehime Maru.

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Waddle speaks to reporters through tears

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Scott Waddle, former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, speaks to reporters through tears at a hotel in Matsuyama on Dec. 15 after offering flowers at a memorial in Uwajima for the nine people who died in last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the Ehime Maru, a Japanese high school fisheries training ship.

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Waddle offers flowers at memorial in Uwajima

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Scott Waddle, former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, visits Uwajima Fisheries High School in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Dec. 15. He offered a wreath of flowers at a memorial for the victims of last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru.

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Greeneville's Waddle arrives in Uwajima

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Scott Waddle, former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, arrived at Matsuyama airport on Dec. 15 en route to the city of Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. He plans to lay flowers at a memorial at Uwajima Fisheries High School for nine Japanese victims of a 2001 collision between the sub and the high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. His lawyer said Waddle will be staying in Japan until Dec. 17.

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Greeneville's Waddle arrives in Japan to apologize

NARITA, Japan - Scott Waddle, former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, arrives at Narita airport on Dec. 14 to apologize to Japanese who lost their relatives in a 2001 collision between the sub and the high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru.

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Ex-U.S. sub captain apologizes to Ehime Maru accident victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Local media on Dec. 12 received a faxed letter from the former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, retired Cmdr. Scott Waddle (file photo), apologizing to victims of last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato also received a letter from Waddle earlier this month.

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Ceremony held for completion of substitute Ehime Maru

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A ceremony is held Dec. 10 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture to mark the completion of the new fisheries training ship Ehime Maru (photo) to replace the one that sank with the loss of nine lives off Hawaii last year after being rammed by a surfacing U.S. submarine. The new ship, owned by Uwajima Fisheries High School, was launched in August and will begin a three-month trial voyage in January.

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Substitute vessel for Ehime Maru on test cruise

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A newly built vessel for fisheries students to replace the Ehime Maru training ship that sank off Hawaii last year after a collision with a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine sails off Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 14 for a test cruise.

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Japanese victims, U.S. Navy sign collision settlement

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese lawyer Morio Hatakeyama (L, front) and U.S. Navy Capt. Richard Evans shake hands at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Nov. 14 after signing documents to settle the collision off Hawaii last year between the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville and the Ehime Maru from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture. Hatakeyama heads a group of lawyers representing 26 survivors and the bereaved families of seven victims. (Pool photo)

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U.S. Navy explains Ehime Maru collision to kin of victims

TOKYO, Japan - Ryosuke Terata (R, front), father of Yusuke Terata, and his wife Masumi (L) walk to a U.S. military facility in Tokyo on Oct. 23 where the U.S. Navy held a meeting for relatives of victims of last year's fatal crash between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville off Hawaii to explain how it happened. Yusuke died in the accident.

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New Ehime Maru launched

IMABARI, Japan - A new Ehime Maru fisheries training vessel is launched in a ceremony in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture on Aug. 10 to replace its predecessor, sunk in February last year in a collision with a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii. The boat belongs to the Uwajima Fisheries High School .

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Construction work begins for new Ehime Maru

IMABARI, Japan - Construction began in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on April 17 of a new fishery training ship to succeed the Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii in 2001 after being rammed by a U.S. submarine, with the loss of nine lives. Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the sunken Ehime Maru, were among about 20 people who attended the keel-laying ceremony at a shipbuilding yard of Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co.

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Ehime gov't, U.S. Navy sign $11 mil. compensation accord

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Yano (L), deputy governor of Ehime Prefecture, signs an accord April 10 at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo for about $11.47 million in compensation over the collision of fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and USS sub Greenville off Hawaii on Feb. 9 last year. U.S. Consul Peter Barlerin (R) looks on. Photo by media representative.

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Young Ehime Maru survivors graduate from high school

UWAJIMA, Japan - A graduation ceremony is held March 1 at Uwajima Fisheries High School in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture in western Japan, for about 80 students, including nine students who survived a collision between their fisheries training ship and a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii in February last year. One among the nine did not attend the ceremony.