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School principal hopes 9 missing in accident still alive

UWAJIMA, Japan - Ietaka Horita, principal of Uwajima Fisheries School in Ehime Prefecture, whose training ship sank off Hawaii last week, tells reporters in Uwajima on Feb. 16 he still holds out hope that the nine people still missing will be found alive. He met reporters a day after returning home from Honolulu. The nine, including four students from the high school and two of their teachers, were among 35 people aboard the Ehime Maru, which sank after it was hit by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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Japan's new era under Emperor Naruhito

Chief priest Ietaka Kuki writes the kanji characters for Japan's new imperial era Reiwa in calligraphy at Kumano Hongu Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, on May 1, 2019, the first day of the era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's new era under Emperor Naruhito

Chief priest Ietaka Kuki writes the kanji characters for Japan's new imperial era Reiwa in calligraphy at Kumano Hongu Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, on May 1, 2019, the first day of the era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's new era under Emperor Naruhito

Chief priest Ietaka Kuki writes the kanji characters for Japan's new imperial era Reiwa in calligraphy at Kumano Hongu Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, on May 1, 2019, the first day of the era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's new era under Emperor Naruhito

Visitors take photos of chief priest Ietaka Kuki after he wrote the kanji characters for Japan's new imperial era Reiwa in calligraphy at Kumano Hongu Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, on May 1, 2019, the first day of the era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year of Boar in 2019

Ietaka Kuki (L), chief priest of the Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine in Wakayama Prefecture, and Hiroyoshi Kojima, stationmaster of JR Wakayama Station, pose for a photo at the station in the western Japan prefecture on Nov. 28, 2018. Kuki donated an "ema" votive tablet (L) from the shrine bearing an illustration of a boar ahead of the Year of the Boar in the Oriental zodiac. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year of Boar in 2019

Ietaka Kuki (L), chief priest of the Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine in Wakayama Prefecture, and Hiroyoshi Kojima, stationmaster of JR Wakayama Station, pose for a photo at the station in the western Japan prefecture on Nov. 28, 2018. Kuki donated an "ema" votive tablet from the shrine bearing an illustration of a boar ahead of the Year of the Boar in the Oriental zodiac. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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School principal hopes 9 missing in accident still alive

UWAJIMA, Japan - Ietaka Horita, principal of Uwajima Fisheries School in Ehime Prefecture, whose training ship sank off Hawaii last week, tells reporters in Uwajima on Feb. 16 he still holds out hope that the nine people still missing will be found alive. He met reporters a day after returning home from Honolulu. The nine, including four students from the high school and two of their teachers, were among 35 people aboard the Ehime Maru, which sank after it was hit by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.