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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ex-U.S. sub skipper Waddle leaves Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, leaves Narita airport for home Dec. 17. He was in Japan to apologize for the 2001 fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and a high school fisheries training ship.

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U.S. Navy opposed ex-sub captain's Japan visit: lawyer

TOKYO, Japan - Charles Gittins, the attorney of Scott Waddle, former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, attends a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16. He indicated that opposition from the U.S. Navy influenced the delay of Waddle's visit to Japan to apologize for the sub's fatal collision with a Japanese high school fisheries training ship in 2001.

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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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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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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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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.

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U.S. Navy ends search for last Ehime Maru victim

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy Rear Adm. William Klemm (L) tells reporters in Honolulu on Nov. 7 that the Navy has ended its search for the remains of the ninth and final missing person who was aboard the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. The U.S. Navy searched for nearly three weeks inside the sunken fisheries training ship, which was hit and sunk off Hawaii by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville in February.

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2nd body in Ehime Maru identified as 17-year-old student

UWAJIMA, Japan - Akiko Nomoto speaks to reporters in front her house in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Oct. 19 after learning that the second body recovered by the U.S. Navy from the sunken Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru had been identified as her 17-year-old son Katsuya. Nine Japanese, including four students from Uwajima Fisheries High School, went missing after their ship was hit and sunk off Hawaii by the U.S. submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9.

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U.S. Navy to lift Ehime Maru by Wednesday at earliest

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. Navy's Rear Adm. William Klemm explains plans to lift the Ehime Maru from the ocean floor to a shallow shoal off Honolulu International Airport at a press conference in Honolulu on Oct. 9. The Japanese fisheries training ship sank off Hawaii in February after being hit by the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville.

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Modified salvage plan may delay lift of Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy's Capt. Bert Marsh briefs reporters in Hawaii on Sept. 7 on operations to salvage Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru sunk by U.S. submarine Greeneville off Hawaii on Feb. 9.

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U.S. Navy explains Ehime Maru salvage to relatives

UWAJIMA, Japan - The U.S. Navy's Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (3rd from R), meets with relatives of crew members from the fisheries training ship Ehime Maru in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 18 to explain salvage operations for the sunken ship. The ship, belonging to Uwajima Fisheries High School, was hit by the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville and sunk off Hawaii on Feb. 9.

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Relatives unsatisfied with Waddle testimony, want punishment

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of the nine Japanese lost at sea in the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine speak to reporters at the U.S. naval base in Oahu, Hawaii, on March 20 after the Navy's Court of Inquiry ended its last session. They expressed dissatisfaction with testimony by Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the USS Greeneville, which sank the Ehime Maru in a collision.

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Mori visits Ehime Maru-Greeneville crash site

HONOLULU, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (3rd from L) throws a flower bouquet into the sea at a point off Oahu Island where the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville struck and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru on Feb. 9. Relatives of the nine Japanese who were lost at sea in the accident were aboard with the premier.

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Waddle takes stand in surprise move

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S. submarine Greeneville, walks to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on March 20. Waddle, acting against the advice of his counsel, testified on the collision of the sub with the Japanese ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii last month, accepting full responsibility for the accident but also blaming his crew for not following his orders.

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Waddle won't submit written testimony: lawyer

HONOLULU, United States - A lawyer for former Greeneville captain Cmdr. Scott Waddle (R) on March 18 denies his client will submit written testimony to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry investigating the sub's fatal collision with the Ehime Maru, despite a statement by the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu indicating he would. ''Cmdr. Waddle has no written testimony,'' Charles Gittins said in an e-mail message to Kyodo News. File photo shows Waddle chatting with Gittins after attending the first day of the court of inquiry on March 5.

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More time might have averted collision: sonar chief

HONOLULU, United States - Petty Officer Edward McGiboney, sonar supervisor on the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, tells the Navy's Court of Inquiry in Honolulu on March 16 that the collision between the sub and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru might have been averted had more time been put into getting an accurate sonar reading of the surface picture.

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Mayor hands Ehime Maru petition to Mori

TOKYO, Japan - Uwajima Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi (R) on March 16 hands a petition signed by about 750,000 people to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori calling for the raising of the sunken Ehime Maru from waters off Hawaii and clarification of the causes of its collision with the U.S. submarine Greeneville last month.

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Ehime Maru captain urges U.S. Navy inquiry to be thorough

HONOLULU, United States - Hisao Onishi, captain of the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru, leaves a U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on March 14 after testifying on the events surrounding the Feb. 9 collision between his ship and the U.S. submarine Greeneville. He called for the court to be thorough in its investigation into the accident to prevent similar disasters.

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Admiral calls Ehime Maru rescue effort 'perfect'

HONOLULU, United States - Rear Adm. Albert Konetzni is seen outside a U.S Navy Court of Inquiry at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on March 12. The court is probing the Feb. 9 collision between the U.S. submarine Greeneville and the Japanese ship Ehime Maru, which sank. Konetzni, who heads the Pacific Fleet submarine force, testified that he thinks the post-collision search and rescue operation was ''perfect.''

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Ehime Maru captain arrives in Hawaii to testify

HONOLULU, United States - Hisao Onishi, captain of the Ehime Maru training ship, arrives at Honolulu airport on March 11 to testify at a U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry. The inquiry is looking into the sinking of his ship by the U.S. submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9. Onishi has been asked by the court to recount his version of events surrounding the collision.

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Hawaiians hand messages to Ehime Maru relatives

HONOLULU, United States - A group of relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing after a submarine rammed their ship receive a sheet bearing messages from about 300 Hawaiian people at a hotel on the island of Oahu on March 10. The messages were written in a traditional Hawaiian ceremony held as a gesture of solace for the relatives. The missing were aboard the Ehime Maru fisheries training ship that was struck by the U.S. submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9.

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Wife of sub commander says his career is over

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle (L), captain of the U.S. submarine Greeneville which sank a Japanese training ship off Hawaii on Feb. 9, and his wife, Jill, leave the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry at Pearl Harbor on March 9. In an interview with ABC television, Jill said her husband realizes his career in the Navy is ''over'' as a result of the accident.

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Sub captain directly apologizes to relatives

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, is pictured March 8 after he directly apologized for the first time to relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing in last month's collision between the sub and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii. Waddle privately made the apology outside the courtroom of the Navy's Court of Inquiry in Honolulu after the fourth day of the inquiry into the accident concluded.

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Ehime Maru captain dissatisfied with Waddle's written apology

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows a letter of apology recently sent from Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the U.S. submarine Greeneville, to Hisao Onishi, captain of the Ehime Maru, in Hiroshima, western Japan. After releasing the contents of the letter, Onishi expressed dissatisfaction March 9 over the letter, saying, ''I wanted (Waddle) to write about his own responsibility.''

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Navy investigator names 5 causes for sub-ship crash

HONOLULU, United States - Lt. j.g. Michael Coen, the officer of the deck at the time of the collision between the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville and the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru last month, leaves the Navy's Court of Inquiry at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii on March 7. Rear Adm. Charles Griffiths, who conducted a preliminary probe into the fatal collision, identified five causes of the accident.

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Tenn. pair hand support letters to Ehime Maru kin

HONOLULU, United States - Dale Long (2nd from L), from the town of Greeneville, Tennessee, shakes hands March 6 with Ryosuke Terata (R), whose 17-year-old student son Yusuke was lost at sea when the fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru went down Feb. 9. Dale and his wife Linda (L) handed letters of support to the relatives of the victims of the tragedy.

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Navy inquiry enters 2nd day with visit to dry-docked sub

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. submarine Greeneville, dry-docked at Pearl Harbor, Oahu Island, is on March 6 examined by members of the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry into last month's collision between the sub and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru. The group toured the sub on the second day of the inquiry.

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Greeneville rushing maneuver before collision, inquiry told

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle (R), former captain of the US. submarine Greeneville, talks with his lawyer Charles Gittins at Hawaii's Pearl Harbor on March 5 after the first day of a U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry. The inquiry is examining a collision in February between the sub and a Japanese fisheries training ship, the Ehime Maru. In the session March 5, Rear. Adm. Charles Griffiths, who conducted a preliminary inquiry into the collision, testified that the Greeneville was rushing through an emergency-surfacing maneuver when it struck the Ehime Maru because the sub was 45 minutes behind schedule after lunch for a group of 16 civilian visitors on board took longer than expected.

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Relatives of sub collision victims meet reporters

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi (L), Miyako Sakashima (C), and Ryosuke Terata -- family members of some of the nine Japanese who went missing following the Feb. 9 collision between the U.S. submarine Greeneville and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii -- meet the press in Honolulu on March 5 after the end of the first day of the U.S. Navy's Court of Inquiry. Relatives of the missing were allocated six of the 54 spectator seats at the inquiry which is looking into the collision.

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U.S. Navy inquiry on sub collision opens in Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle, commander of the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville, arrives at the U.S. Navy's Court of Inquiry at Pearl Harbor naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 5.

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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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Personal items recovered from Japanese sunken ship shown

HONOLULU, U.S. - Photo shows personal items recovered from the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru sunk in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. Navy sub Greeneville off Hawaii. Relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing in the collision inspected the items, which include T-shirts, work clothes, sandals, helmets, rubber boots and gloves, at a Honolulu hotel on March 3.

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Ehime Maru victims' kin arrive at Honolulu

HONOLULU, U.S. - Six relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing in the Feb. 9 collision of the U.S. Navy sub Greeneville and the training trawler Ehime Maru arrive on March 3 in Honolulu for a Navy Court of Inquiry into the cause of the tragedy that is set to convene on March 5. They include Kazuo Nakata (L), father of Uwajima Fisheries High School's teacher Jun Nakata, 33.

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U.S. special envoy Fallon apologizes to Ehime governor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Adm. Willian Fallon (R), a special U.S. envoy to Japan, meets with Moriyuki Kato, governor of Ehime Prefecture, at the prefectural government head office on March 1. Fallon apologized to Kato for the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru by the U.S. submarine Greeneville off Hawaii. The Ehime Maru belongs to Uwajima Fisheries High School run by the prefecture.