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Tsunami warning issued in Hawaii

A beach in Honolulu on Oahu Island, Hawaii, is mostly empty on July 29, 2025, after a tsunami warning was issued following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Hawaii

People evacuate from a beach in Honolulu on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on July 29, 2025, after a tsunami warning was issued following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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US: Palisades Fire Visible From Flights Near LAX As 30,000 Evacuate 4

Huge plumes of smoke were visible from flights arriving and departing from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as a wildfire rapidly spread through Pacific Palisades fueled by Santa Ana winds on Tuesday, January 7. The fire has scorched more than 2,900 acres, prompting the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents and causing several road closures. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to provide additional support to the affected communities.

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US: Palisades Fire Smoke Visible From Flights Near LAX As 30,000 Evacuate 2

Huge plumes of smoke were visible from flights arriving and departing from Los Angeles International Airport as a wildfire rapidly spread through Pacific Palisades fueled by Santa Ana winds on Tuesday, January 7. The fire has scorched more than 2,900 acres, prompting the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents and causing several road closures. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to provide additional support to the affected communities.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

South Korea's Kim A Lim holds the trophy after winning the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on Nov. 9, 2024.

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Scene in Honolulu

Tourists stroll down Kalakaua Avenue along Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island on Nov. 17, 2023.

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Scene in Honolulu

Tourists soak up the sun at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island on Nov. 17, 2023.

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Honolulu's Skyline rail system

File photo taken in June 2023 shows a driverless Skyline train running near Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island.

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Honolulu's Skyline rail system

File photo taken in June 2023 shows a driverless Skyline train running near Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island.

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Rail system opens on Hawaii's Oahu island

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi (L) speaks during the opening ceremony for the initial segment of the self-driving Skyline rail system on Oahu island in Hawaii on June 30, 2023.

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Rail system opens on Hawaii's Oahu island

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi (3rd from L) attends the opening ceremony for the initial segment of the self-driving Skyline rail system on Oahu island in Hawaii on June 30, 2023.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Japan's Nasa Hataoka gets a feel for the course ahead of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 11, 2023.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Japan's Ayaka Furue plays in a pro-am event ahead of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 11, 2023.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Japan's Hinako Shibuno gets a feel for the course ahead of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 11, 2023.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Japan's Hinako Shibuno (L) and Ayaka Furue participate in a pro-am event ahead of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 11, 2023.

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Royal couple pay tribute to U.S. war dead, hail scholarship

HONOLULU, United States - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) raises his glass at a banquet to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation in Hawaii's Oahu Island on July 15. (Pool photo)

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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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Japanese sumo wrestlers in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Ozeki Kaio (front) charges during a sightseeing tour of Oahu island on June 7. A delegation of sumo wrestlers arrived in Honolulu earlier in the day to take part in a sumo exhibition tournament, the first in 14 years. The two-day exhibition meet involving wrestlers in the top makuuchi division will be held June 9-10.

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Japanese sumo wrestlers in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Newly promoted yokozuna Hakuho (R) and ozeki Kaio take a sightseeing tour of Oahu island shortly after arriving in Honolulu to take part in a sumo exhibition tournament in Hawaii, the first in 14 years. The two-day exhibition meet involving wrestlers in the top makuuchi division will be held June 9-10.

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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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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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Divers to search inside of Ehime Maru at end of Sept.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Thomas Fargo (L, front), the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, meets Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R, front) on Sept. 9 at Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu Island. He told Tanaka that divers will likely be able to start searching the inside of Ehime Maru, a sunken Japanese high school fisheries training ship, at the end of September.

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Divers to recover Ehime Maru's missing crew members

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. Navy makes public to reporters their divers' training at the naval base in Oahu Island in Hawaii on Aug. 15. Sixty-six U.S. Navy divers, as well as 30 Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) divers, will participate in recovering the bodies of crew members who went down with Japanese fisheries training vessel the Ehime Maru after it collided with a U.S. submarine in February. They will continue their training until Aug. 17.

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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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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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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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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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Families of Ehime Maru victims scatter flowers on sea

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of Japanese missing in the sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine throw flowers into the water on March 4 at the site of the collision off Oahu Island on Feb. 9.

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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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Honolulu ukulele player to release Ehime Maru song

HONOLULU, United States - Jake Shimabukuro strums a ukulele on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. He has written a song titled ''Ehimemaru,'' dedicated to the victims of the sinking of the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru near Hawaii last month, and plans to release it. Sales from the song are to be donated to a fund recently set up by Hawaii-based groups. Shimabukuro, a fourth-generation Japanese-American, said he wanted to do something to help relatives of the nine people missing, presumed dead, in the Feb. 9 collision.

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Buddhist monks in Hawaii pray for rescue of missing 9

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows Ryokan Ara, a 72-year-old priest at a Tendai Sect temple in Honolulu, who is one of several Japanese Buddhist monks in Hawaii who have been praying for the rescue of nine Japanese missing since the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese high school fisheries training ship by a U.S. submarine off the island of Oahu. ''We feel pain thinking about the families of the missing people. We hope they will return safe,'' Ara said.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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Submersible checks area near Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Crewmen aboard a U.S. ship on Feb. 19 pilot Deep Drone, a remote-controlled submersible examining the sea bottom where a Japanese trawler sank Feb. 9 after being hit by a U.S. submarine off Oahu Island. The submersible is being used to determine how the Ehime Maru could be raised.

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Families of Ehime Maru form association

HONOLULU, United States - Families of the nine missing in the Feb. 9 collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville off Hawaii talk with Japanese Parliamentary Foreign Secretary Yoshitaka Sakurada (R) in Honolulu on Feb. 19. They have formed an association to collectively demand the U.S. authorities raise the sunken ship, which has been found lying on the seabed about 600 meters underwater off Oahu Island.

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Submersible sent to study sunken Japanese ship

HONOLULU, United States - A remotely controlled submersible vehicle, Deep Drone (R), sits near the stern of a U.S. Navy ship on Feb. 18 off the island of Oahu, Hawaii, in an area of sea where a U.S. submarine sank a Japanese training ship. The submersible is being used to determine what form a recovery operation for the sunken ship should take. The Ehime Maru sank Feb. 9 after it was hit by the Greeneville.

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Unmanned deep-sea probe starts search for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Crew aboard a U.S. Navy ship pilot an unmanned submersible off Oahu Island on Feb. 16 in a search for the Japanese fisheries training ship that sank Feb. 9 after being struck by a Navy submarine. The Scorpio-2 submersible is expected to pinpoint the location of the 499-ton Ehime Maru, which sank in 550 meters of water 18 kilometers south of the island after being hit by the 6,080-ton nuclear sub USS Greeneville as it was surfacing in an emergency drill.

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2 relatives of missing Japanese leave Honolulu for home

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi (R), father of Takashi Mizuguchi, 17, a student of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture, and Satsuko Izumi (L), aunt of chief engineer Toshimichi Furuya, 47, depart from Honolulu airport on Feb. 16 to Japan after spending six days in Honolulu. Taksahi Mizuguchi and Furuya are among nine Japanese missing following a collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and U.S. submarine Greeneville off Oahu Island on Feb. 9.

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U.S. Navy continue search for missing Japanese

HONOLULU, United States - Two crew members of the U.S. Navy cruiser Port Royal stand on the bridge off Oahu Island, Hawaii, on Feb. 15 in search for possible clues to nine Japanese missing since their fisheries training ship sank Feb. 9 after being struck by a surfacing U.S. nuclear submarine.

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9 students from sunken ship arrive at Kansai airport

OSAKA, Japan - Nine Japanese students who were rescued Friday after their training ship sank following a collision with a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii's Oahu Island arrive at Kansai airport off Osaka on Feb. 13.

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Relatives visit site of marine accident

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of the nine Japanese missing since last week's collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville leave the accident site, some 18 kilometers south of Oahu Island, on Feb. 12. The group visited the site on board a ship chartered by the U.S.

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Families of missing Japanese head to collision site

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of the nine Japanese missing following last week's collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville near Hawaii board a chartered U.S. ship in Honolulu on Feb. 12 to head to the accident site some 18 kilometers south of Oahu Island. The Ehime is believed to be sitting on the seabed below.

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Kin of Ehime Maru missing arrive in Hawaii+

WASHINGTON, The United States - Thirty-two kin of nine Japanese who went missing when a Japanese fisheries training ship sunk after colliding with a U.S. nuclear submarine near Hawaii are greeted at Honolulu International Airport by Lt. Gen. Thomas Case (above right in blue uniform), deputy commander of U.S. Pacific military forces, on Feb. 11. The relatives were later briefed on the accident, which occurred Feb. 9 about 18 kilometers south of Oahu Island. The Los Angeles-class attack sub USS Greeneville hit and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru, and 26 of the 35 people aboard the trawler were rescued.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Kim Hyo Joo of South Korea hits a shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 16, 2022.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Kim Hyo Joo of South Korea poses with the trophy after winning the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 16, 2022.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Japan's Hinako Shibuno tees off on the second hole during the final round of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 16, 2022.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Japan's Hinako Shibuno hits out of a bunker on the eighth hole during the final round of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 16, 2022.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Japan's Hinako Shibuno hits a shot on the first hole during the final round of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 16, 2022.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Hinako Shibuno of Japan hits her tee shot on the fifth hole during the third round of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 15, 2022.

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Golf: Lotte Championship

Hinako Shibuno of Japan plays a shot on the seventh hole during the third round of the Lotte Championship golf tournament at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on April 15, 2022.