(2)Japan vs N. Korea qualifier

(2)Japan vs N. Korea qualifier

BANGKOK, Thailand - North Korea midfielder Kim Yong Jun (L) and Japan midfielder Kojhi Nakata Japan tussle for control of the ball in the first half of their World Cup Asia zone Group B qualifier behind closed doors at Bangkok's Suphachalasai National Stadium on June 8.

Funeral held for Ehime Maru victim in Honolulu

Funeral held for Ehime Maru victim in Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of Jun Nakata, whose body was retrieved from the sunken Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, carry Nakata's coffin to a hearse at a Honolulu funeral hall on Oct. 27. Nakata, a teacher from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, was one of the nine Japanese who went missing in the Feb. 9 collision off Hawaii with a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine.

Letter given to Waddle who apologizes to kin of missing Japanese

Letter given to Waddle who apologizes to kin of missing Japanese

HONOLULU, United States - The photo shows a letter written by the wife of a missing teacher and handed to Cmdr. Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S. Navy submarine that collided with and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship Feb. 9. Waddle on March 16 directly apologized to relatives of some of the nine missing Japanese including Naoko Nakata, 36, wife of Jun Nakata, a 33-year-old high school teacher. The letter said, ''I am unable to recover myself from the disaster and unable to accept your apology...My husband who was to share joy and sorrow of life with me is gone forever.'' It asks Waddle to tell the truth and explain why the accident happened at the Navy's ongoing Court of Inquiry.

Ehime Maru victims' kin arrive at Honolulu

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.

(2)Japan vs N. Korea qualifier

(2)Japan vs N. Korea qualifier

BANGKOK, Thailand - North Korea midfielder Kim Yong Jun (L) and Japan midfielder Kojhi Nakata Japan tussle for control of the ball in the first quarter of their World Cup Asia zone Group B qualifier behind closed doors at Bangkok's Suphachalasai National Stadium on June 8. (Kyodo)

Jun Nakata, a victim of U.S. submarine fatal collision

Jun Nakata, a victim of U.S. submarine fatal collision

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Nakata, 33, a victim of a fatal collision between a Japanese fishery training ship and a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine on Feb. 9, 2001

Letter given to Waddle who apologizes to kin of missing Japanese

Letter given to Waddle who apologizes to kin of missing Japanese

HONOLULU, United States - The photo shows a letter written by the wife of a missing teacher and handed to Cmdr. Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S. Navy submarine that collided with and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship Feb. 9. Waddle on March 16 directly apologized to relatives of some of the nine missing Japanese including Naoko Nakata, 36, wife of Jun Nakata, a 33-year-old high school teacher. The letter said, ''I am unable to recover myself from the disaster and unable to accept your apology...My husband who was to share joy and sorrow of life with me is gone forever.'' It asks Waddle to tell the truth and explain why the accident happened at the Navy's ongoing Court of Inquiry.