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Russian Missile Attack - Kiev

Residents wait for updates about their missing relatives after a Russian missile attack in Kiev, Ukraine on June 17, 2025. At least 15 people were killed and 75 others injured in Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine overnight Tuesday, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a statement. The capital Kiev was hit hardest in the attack, where a ballistic missile struck a nine-story apartment building, killing 14 people and injuring 60 others, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency cited the minister as saying. Photo by Peter Druk/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Funeral After an Israeli Raid - Nablus

(EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death) Relatives mourn the killing of Mahmoud al-Kharaz during his funeral in Nablus, West Bank, on May 27, 2025. He was shot in the chest and killed by Israeli forces during a military raid earlier that morning. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, nine people were injured during the operation, including cases of live ammunition wounds, rubber bullet injuries, and tear gas inhalation. Photo by Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Funeral After an Israeli Raid - Nablus

Relatives mourn the killing of Mahmoud al-Kharaz during his funeral in Nablus, West Bank, on May 27, 2025. He was shot in the chest and killed by Israeli forces during a military raid earlier that morning. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, nine people were injured during the operation, including cases of live ammunition wounds, rubber bullet injuries, and tear gas inhalation. Photo by Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Funeral After an Israeli Raid - Nablus

(EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death) Relatives mourn the killing of Mahmoud al-Kharaz during his funeral in Nablus, West Bank, on May 27, 2025. He was shot in the chest and killed by Israeli forces during a military raid earlier that morning. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, nine people were injured during the operation, including cases of live ammunition wounds, rubber bullet injuries, and tear gas inhalation. Photo by Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 76 Dead In Turkish Ski Resort Hotel Fire - Turkey

Relatives of those who lost their lives in Grand Kartal Hotel continued to wait in front of the hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21, 2025. At least 76 people died and 51 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in Kartalkaya ski resort. The interior minister later said 45 of the 76 people killed have been identified, and efforts are ongoing to identify the other victims. Nine people have been detained as part of the investigation into the fire. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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1 killed, 9 injured in Israeli airstrike on Lebanese village

STORY: 1 killed, 9 injured in Israeli airstrike on Lebanese village SHOOTING TIME: June 17, 2024 DATELINE: June 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: TAIR HARFA, Lebanon CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of smoke resulting from Israeli raid on the outskirts of the border village of Tair Harfa 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): SLEIMAN HANOUN, Resident at Tair Harfa village 3. various of families visiting the graves of their relatives on the occasion of Eid Al Adha STORYLINE: One civilian was killed, and nine others were injured on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on a southern Lebanese village, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua. The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that Israeli drones launched six missiles at two cars, killing one civilian in the first car and wounding eight others in the second car and another riding a bicycle in the village of al-Borgholiye, north of the Tyre city. They added that Israeli warplanes raided Tuesday four towns and villages in the border area in southern Lebanon, destroy

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Turkish authorities detain 8 suspects over landslide in gold mine

STORY: Turkish authorities detain 8 suspects over landslide in gold mine SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 13-15, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 16, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:25 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the massive landslide in a golden mine in Erzincan province of Türkiye (Date: Feb. 13, 2024) 2. various of the search and rescue works at the golden mine after the landslide (Date: Feb. 14, 2024) (Courtesy of Ihlas news agency) 3. various of some relatives and colleague of the nine employees who were trapped under shifting soil (Date: Feb. 15, 2024) (Courtesy of Ihlas news agency) STORYLINE: The number of suspects detained in connection with the landslide at a gold mine in eastern Türkiye, where nine workers were trapped, has increased to eight, the state-run TRT broadcaster reported on Thursday. One more suspect was apprehended on Thursday as part of the investigation launched after the landslide hit a dump-leaching area of a gold mine in the Ilic district of Erzincan province on Tuesday, following seve

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At Least 9 Workers Trapped After Landslide At Gold Mine - Turkey

Relatives of the trapped workers arrive at the mine site. Police officers and private security guards of the company tightened the measures at the entrance of the mine site on February 14, 2024 in Ilic, district of Erzincan, Turkey . Nine mine workers went missing on Tuesday after a landslide hit an open goldmine in the Ilic district of Erzincan province in Turkey. Hundreds of rescue workers are engaged in a search operation currently that authorities say is complicated by the presence of cyanide in the soil. Out of 667 employees, nine are unaccounted for, according to Turkey’s Interior Minister. Photo by Ugur Yildirim/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 9 Workers Trapped After Landslide At Gold Mine - Turkey

Relatives of the trapped workers arrive at the mine site. Police officers and private security guards of the company tightened the measures at the entrance of the mine site on February 14, 2024 in Ilic, district of Erzincan, Turkey . Nine mine workers went missing on Tuesday after a landslide hit an open goldmine in the Ilic district of Erzincan province in Turkey. Hundreds of rescue workers are engaged in a search operation currently that authorities say is complicated by the presence of cyanide in the soil. Out of 667 employees, nine are unaccounted for, according to Turkey’s Interior Minister. Photo by Ugur Yildirim/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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At Least 9 Workers Trapped After Landslide At Gold Mine - Turkey

Relatives of the trapped workers arrive at the mine site. Police officers and private security guards of the company tightened the measures at the entrance of the mine site on February 14, 2024 in Ilic, district of Erzincan, Turkey . Nine mine workers went missing on Tuesday after a landslide hit an open goldmine in the Ilic district of Erzincan province in Turkey. Hundreds of rescue workers are engaged in a search operation currently that authorities say is complicated by the presence of cyanide in the soil. Out of 667 employees, nine are unaccounted for, according to Turkey’s Interior Minister. Photo by Ugur Yildirim/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pit accident kills 3 miners in Spain

STORY: Pit accident kills 3 miners in Spain DATELINE: March 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: (courtesy of Fire Department of the Catalonia region) various of firefighters, ambulances, police, workers and relatives of the victims of the accident at the potash mine company in Suria, near Barcelona on Thursdayvarious of the potash mine company STORYLINE: Three people were killed in a potash mine accident close to Barcelona, northeast Spain, on Thursday morning. Confirming the deaths, the Catalan fire brigade informed that they received the report of the accident at 08:53 local time (0753 GMT) and arrived at the mine with nine rescue vehicles and a medical helicopter. The accident happened around 900 meters underground at the Suria potash mine. The causes are so far unknown. The three victims working for the company ICL Iberia were apparently in a gallery when the roof fell and buried them. Work is underway to recover the bodies, according to the authori

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9 Japanese leave for N. Korea to visit kin's graves

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniyasu Ishihara (far L), one of nine Japanese leaving for North Korea to visit burial sites believed to contain the remains of their relatives who died in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II, meets the press at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 25, 2014, before their departure.

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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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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Boat carrying apparent N. Korean defectors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a wooden boat (front) being towed by the Japan Coast Guard in the Sea of Japan to Kanazawa port, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found the boat carrying nine apparent defectors from North Korea -- six adults and three children -- earlier in the day in waters off Wajima in the prefecture. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and that they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a helicopter taking off from the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Hida, in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The helicopter was carrying nine probable defectors from North Korea-- six adults and three children -- found earlier in the day on a wooden boat. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a wooden boat bearing Korean characters on its side in the Sea of Japan off Ishikawa Prefecture on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found the boat carrying nine probable defectors from North Korea -- six adults and three children -- earlier in the day. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Boat carrying apparent N. Korean defectors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a wooden boat being towed by the Japan Coast Guard in the Sea of Japan to Kanazawa port, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found the boat carrying nine apparent defectors from North Korea -- six adults and three children -- earlier in the day in waters off Wajima in the prefecture. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers as they get off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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

HONOLULU, United States - Bereaved relatives offer flowers as a ceremony is held at a cenotaph in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 9, 2011, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collision between the Japanese fisheries school boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii. 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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Court rejects suit against collective enshrinement at Yasukuni

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (L), who heads the group of plaintiffs in a Yasukuni Shrine-related lawsuit, speaks to reporters in Osaka on Feb. 26 after a court ruling. The Osaka District Court turned down the lawsuit by nine relatives that called for the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo to stop enshrining 11 servicemen and civilian employees of the former imperial Japanese forces.

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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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Ehime Maru victims' kin ask U.S. body to investigate accident

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Toyoda, chief lawyer for relatives of two of the nine people who died in the sinking of the Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru in 2001, tells reporters in Tokyo that he and his group of lawyers are asking the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to investigate the accident. The ship sank after a U.S. Navy submarine collided with it off Hawaii.

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Chinese stepchildren of war orphan granted stay permit

OSAKA, Japan - Nine Chinese stepchildren and step-grandchildren of a Japanese war orphan hold their special residence permits they received from the justice minister on June 20. They were rejected residency in 2001 because they were not blood relatives of Japanese war orphan Isamu Yoshioka (2nd from R). Shang Xiujuan (3rd from L) and her brother Shang Libin (2nd from L) are the children of a Chinese woman who married Yoshioka when he was in China. The nine also include the members of the siblings' families.

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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.

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Kin of Ehime Maru victims visit search area, shown belongings

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of nine people lost at sea in the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru throw bouquets on Oct. 23 into the sea where U.S. Navy divers are searching the vessel. The Japanese Foreign Ministry chartered a ship to take the relatives to the site off the Honolulu airport that the Ehime Maru was moved to after being raised from the seabed.

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Relatives of Ehime Maru victims visit shallow-water site

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of nine persons who went missing in the February collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii visit the shallow-water site off Honolulu where the ill-fated ship has been towed Oct. 16.

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U.S. Navy explains Ehime Maru salvage to relatives

UWAJIMA, Japan - U.S. Navy officers on Aug. 18 provide details of the salvaging operation of a Japanese high school fisheries training ship off Hawaii to relatives of those lost in the vessel's sinking by a U.S. nuclear submarine in February. The officers, led by Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (C), met the relatives in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The sunken ship Ehime Maru belonged to Uwajima Fisheries High School in Uwajima and many of the nine people missing in the incident were from the area.

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Ehime Maru victims' relatives thank Hawaiians for kindness

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows a copy of letters by relatives of the nine Japanese lost at sea in the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese fisheries training ship, in which they express their gratitude for Hawaiians' kindness and consideration and apologies for any offense they may have caused in their grief. The letter, translated by the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu, will be delivered to the Hawaii governor.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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Victims' families urge Mori to raise sunken ship

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori bows to relatives of nine Japanese missing after the Feb. 9 collision between a U.S. Navy submarine a Japanese training ship off in a meeting at his official resident Feb. 22. The 15 relatives urged Mori to work to recover the Ehime Maru from the seabed.

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Families of 9 Japanese lash out at U.S. Navy, demand apology

HONOLULU, United States - Sixteen relatives of the nine Japanese missing in the collision between the fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville speak to reporters at a press conference in Honolulu Feb. 16. They lashed out at the U.S. Navy for not apologizing to them for the loss of their loved ones.