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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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Etsuko Takano dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2001 shows Etsuko Takano, general manager of Iwanami Hall, a Tokyo movie theater famous for screenings of foreign art films. Takano died of colon cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 9, 2013, the 45th anniversary of the founding of Iwanami Hall. She was 83 years old.

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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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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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Requiem for 9 Ehime Maru victims performed at concert

UWAJIMA, Japan - A requiem for nine people who died when the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru sank Feb. 9, 2001 after being struck by a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii is performed at a concert on Feb. 16 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. The requiem by Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa titled ''Kibokai'' (ocean of hope) was performed by a choir comprising politicians and cultural figures.

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Kyosuke Tamai

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Kyosuke Tamai, a graduate of Uwajima Fisheries High School, wrote the lyrics of a requiem for the nine people who died in the collision between the U.S. submarine Greeneville and Ehime Maru off Hawaii on Feb. 9, 2001.