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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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Japan: M6.6 Earthquake Strikes Off Western Shikoku Coast 2

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck western Japan on Wednesday night, April 17 with the epicenter in the Bungo Channel, a strait separating Shikoku and Kyushu islands. Shaking was felt in wide areas across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency later upgraded the quake to 6.6 magnitude. The video, filmed in Uwajima, Ehime, shows people coming out of buildings during an aftershock five minutes after the main jolt. Screams can also be heard.

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M6.6 earthquake hits western Japan

Shattered roof tiles lie scattered on a road in Uwajima in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on the morning of April 18, 2024, after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit Ehime and Kochi prefectures the previous night.

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M6.6 earthquake hits western Japan

A police officer cleans up debris in Uwajima in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on the morning of April 18, 2024, after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit Ehime and Kochi prefectures the previous night.

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M6.6 earthquake hits western Japan

A ticket gate at JR Uwajima Station in Uwajima in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, is closed on the morning of April 18, 2024, after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit Ehime and Kochi prefectures the previous night.

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Bullfighting resumes

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Bullfighting resumes in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010, after a suspension in July. The event was resumed as the foot-and-month disease epidemic in Miyazaki Prefecture was declared over.

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Bullfighting resumes

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Bullfighting resumes in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010, after a suspension in July. The event was resumed as the foot-and-month disease epidemic in Miyazaki Prefecture was declared over.

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Century-old store in Ehime village reopens after 20yr hiatus

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The inside of Fukuda Hyakkaten, a general store that had served a mountainous community in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, for about 90 years before going out of business some 20 years ago, is shown on Sept. 14, 2014. It reopened under new owner Futoshi Kuroda (L, standing), with a cafe area.

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Century-old store in Ehime village reopens after 20yr hiatus

MATSUYAMA, Japan - People sit outside of Fukuda Hyakkaten, a general store that had served a mountainous community in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, for about 90 years before going out of business some 20 years ago, on Sept. 14, 2014. It reopened in the same traditional Japanese house built more than 100 years ago.

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Uwajima Ushioni float parades in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - A float of the Uwajima Ushioni festival from Japan's Ehime Prefecture parades through Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 15, 2014, during the 35th Anniversary Pan-Pacific Festival.

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Honolulu, Uwajima celebrate 10th anniversary of sisterhood

HONOLULU, United States - A float used in a festival in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, is introduced during a ceremony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Uwajima-Honolulu sister-city relationship in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 13, 2014. The relationship was established in June 2004, over three years after the the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru was struck by a U.S. navy submarine and sank.

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Honolulu, Uwajima celebrate 10th anniversary of sisterhood

HONOLULU, United States - Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell (L) and Uwajima Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi attend a ceremony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the sister-city relationship of the U.S. city and the western Japanese city in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 13, 2014.

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Bullet train-like sightseeing train starts running

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A sightseeing train, that resembles the 0 series shinkansen bullet trains, departs from JR Uwajima Station in the city of Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on March 15, 2014, as Shikoku Railway Co. began operation of the train. The one-car train runs at a maximum speed of 85 kilometers per hour.

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Sightseeing train resembling Shinkansen bullet train debuts

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A tape-cutting ceremony is held on March 15, 2014, at JR Uwajima Station in the city of Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, to mark the start of Shikoku Railway Co.'s operation of a sightseeing train that resembles the 0 series Shinkansen bullet trains. The one-car train runs at a maximum speed of 85 kilometers per hour.

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Tourists ride shinkansen look-alike train

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Children and railroad fans ride a sightseeing train whose outward appearance looks like the original 0 series shinkansen bullet train in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on March 15, 2014. Shikoku Railway Co. began operating the one-car train on the JR Yodo Line connecting Ehime and Kochi prefectures in western Japan.

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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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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Students of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture offer flowers at a cenotaph in the school premises to commemorate the collision between the school's fisheries boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii on the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 10, 2011. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.

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2nd day of high school baseball tournament in Koshien

KOSHIEN, Japan - A player of Maebashi Commercial High School in Gunma Prefecture (L) runs through first base on an infield hit in the first inning against Ehime Prefectural Uwajima Higashi High School in Ehime Prefecture in a second-day game of the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Aug. 8, 2010. The high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium is a signature summer sports event in Japan.

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Memorial held on 9th anniv. of ship collision with U.S. sub

HONOLULU, United States - Uwajima Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi speaks in front of a memorial cenotaph at Kakaako Waterfront Park in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 9, 2010, during the ninth-year memorial service for the nine Japanese victims of a ship collision between fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine. About 60 people attended the service at the park, which overlooks the site of the accident.

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Memorial held on 9th anniv. of ship collision with U.S. sub

MATSUYAMA, Japan - People offer prayers at Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture on Feb. 10, 2010, during a ninth-year memorial service for the nine victims of the 2001 collision between fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii. Some 300 people attended the ceremony.

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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

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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Couple found guilty of buying kidney for transplant

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The Uwajima branch of the Matsuyama District Court on Dec. 26 sentenced Suzuo Yamashita, a company executive, and his common-law wife Tomoko Matsushita to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for buying a kidney for a transplant for him. Photo shows a car carrying Yamashita entering the branch.

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Iwamura draws bids from Major League clubs

UWAJIMA, Japan - Yakult Swallows infielder Akinori Iwamura speaks with reporters in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Nov. 11 after he had drawn bids from an unspecified number of Major League clubs under the posting system.

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Ehime school marks 5th anniversary of Ehime Maru sinking

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Relatives of people who died in the sinking of the fishery training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii by a surfacing U.S. nuclear submarine offer flowers on Feb. 10 at a ceremony at the Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture. The school held a memorial service to mark the fifth anniversary of the accident in which nine people died.

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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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(2)New Ehime Maru returns home from Honolulu

UWAJIMA, Japan - Uwajima Fisheries High School students welcome the home return of the new Ehime Maru at Uwajima port on July 7 after the ship's two-month training voyage which included a port call in Honolulu. The ship was built to replace the fisheries training vessel of the same name that sank after being rammed by a surfacing U.S. submarine in February 2001.

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(1)New Ehime Maru returns home from Honolulu

UWAJIMA, Japan - Students from Uwajima Fisheries High School (R side) line up aboard the new Ehime Maru on July 7 as they returned home to Uwajima port, Ehime Prefecture, after a two-month training voyage which included a port call in Honolulu. The ship was built to replace the fisheries training vessel of the same name that sank after being rammed by a surfacing U.S. submarine in February 2001.

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New Ehime Maru heads for home after port call in Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - The new Ehime Maru leaves Honolulu for home on June 21. The Japanese ship, built to replace the old fisheries training ship of the same name that sank after colliding with a U.S. submarine in February 2001, is expected to arrive at Ehime Prefecture's Uwajima port on July 6.

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New Ehime Maru makes first port call at Honolulu

HONOLULU, United States - Crew members, teachers and students of Uwajima Fisheries High School from Japan's Ehime Prefecture attend a welcoming ceremony June 17 in Honolulu after their training ship, the new Ehime Maru, arrived there. The new vessel was built to replace the old Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii in February 2001.

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(2)New Ehime Maru sets sail for training off Hawaii

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A newly built fisheries training ship, the Ehime Maru, leaves Uwajima port in Ehime Prefecture, on May 7 for Hawaii on a maiden trip as well-wishers bid farewell. The old Ehime Maru sank off Hawaii in February 2001 after colliding with a U.S. submarine.

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(1)New Ehime Maru sets sail for training off Hawaii

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Uwajima Fisheries High School students bid farewell to well-wishers at Uwajima port in Ehime Prefecture on May 7 as a newly built fisheries training ship, the Ehime Maru, leaves for Hawaii on a maiden trip. The old Ehime Maru sank off Hawaii in February 2001 after colliding with a U.S. submarine.

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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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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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Ceremony held for completion of substitute Ehime Maru

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A ceremony is held Dec. 10 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture to mark the completion of the new fisheries training ship Ehime Maru (photo) to replace the one that sank with the loss of nine lives off Hawaii last year after being rammed by a surfacing U.S. submarine. The new ship, owned by Uwajima Fisheries High School, was launched in August and will begin a three-month trial voyage in January.

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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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New Ehime Maru launched

IMABARI, Japan - A new Ehime Maru fisheries training vessel is launched in a ceremony in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture on Aug. 10 to replace its predecessor, sunk in February last year in a collision with a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii. The boat belongs to the Uwajima Fisheries High School .

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Young Ehime Maru survivors graduate from high school

UWAJIMA, Japan - A graduation ceremony is held March 1 at Uwajima Fisheries High School in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture in western Japan, for about 80 students, including nine students who survived a collision between their fisheries training ship and a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii in February last year. One among the nine did not attend the ceremony.

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Monument unveiled in Ehime for 9 Japanese in sub collision

UWAJIMA, Japan - Students of Uwajima Fisheries High School lay flowers at the monument on the school grounds in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Feb. 22 to commemorate the deaths of nine Japanese in February last year in a collision off Hawaii between the school's training ship and a U.S. Navy submarine. About 400 people attended the ceremony to unveil the monument.

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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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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. envoy offers prayers for Ehime Maru victims

UWAJIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker speaks before the bereaved family members of the nine victims of a collision off Hawaii in February 2001 between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. Navy submarine at a memorial service held in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Jan. 10.

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U.S. officials at Ehime Maru memorial service

UWAJIMA, Japan - U.S. government and military officials attend a memorial service held in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, on Jan. 10 for the nine victims of a collision off Hawaii in February 2001 between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. Navy submarine. Among them were U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin, commander of U.S. naval forces in Japan, and Rear Adm. William Klemm, who was in charge of raising the sunken ship in the U.S. Navy.

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Memorial service held for 9 Ehime Maru victims

UWAJIMA, Japan - People offer silent prayers for the nine Japanese, who died when the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru was struck and sunk by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii, at a memorial service Jan. 10 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. Some 1,200 people attended the ceremony held in the hometown of most of the victims ahead of the first anniversary of the Feb. 9 accident.

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17 students from Uwajima school leave for training in Hawaii

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The fisheries training ship Kagawa Maru, with seventeen students from Uwajima Fisheries High School aboard, departs from a port in Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 10 for Hawaii, where the school's ship, the Ehime Maru, was sunk in a fatal collision with a U.S. submarine last February. Eleven students from Tadotsu Fisheries High School, which owns the ship, are also taking part in the training voyage.