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Remembering the Ehime Maru sinking off Oahu

By Star-Advertiser Staff, Associated Press and U.S. Navy

Feb. 8, 2021

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Families of the missing Ehime Maru crewmen drop flowers and leis into the water at the recovery site.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

The surviving crew of the Ehime Maru leave the U.S. Coast Guard Station at Sand Island and head over to a hotel in Waikiki.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

The oil slick left behind by the Japanese fishing training vessel Ehime Maru following her collision with the Los Angeles class fast attack submarine USS Greeneville on a Friday afternoon in 2001.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter sails through the oil slick left by the sunken Japanese Fishing training vessel Ehime Maru after its collision with the Los Angeles class fast attack submarine USS Greeneville on a Friday afternoon in 2001.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

These are civilians who were aboard the USS Greeneville when it collided with and sank the Japanese fishery training and research vessel Ehime Maru. The civilians were let off the submarine and put on this boat which took them to shore in Pearl Harbor.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

Speaking through an interpreter, Lt. Gen. Thomas R. Case (top, 2nd from right), Deputy Cmdr. in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command speaks to the relatives of the lost crewmen of the Japanese fishing training vessel Ehime Maru. Relatives of the crewmen arrived in Honolulu on Sunday morning and were greeted by a Japanese and American Military delegation at Honolulu International Airport. Rear Adm. Kirk Donald, Deputy Chief of Staff, Pacific Fleet is second from the left.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2001

An unidentified family member cries as she waits for the arrival of Uwajima Fisheries High School survivors at the Matsuyama Airport, near their hometown, in western Japan, Tuesday night in 2001. Nine are still missing and 26 survived Friday's accident off Hawaii in which the U.S. Navy USS Greenville submarine surfaced below their training ship, the Ehime Maru.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2001

Weeping Kazuo Nakata, left, holds up a picture of the sunken Ehime Maru fishing vessel as Naoko Nakata, wife of missing teacher June Nakata, cries during a news conference of the family members of the nine missing in 2001. USS Greeneville, a nuclear powered submarine, rammed a Japanese fishing vessel on Feb. 9. Nakata said "This is the Ehime Maru please salvage the ship" as he held up the picture. Seated at right is a family member Mika Makisawa.
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U.S. NAVY VIA AP / 2001

The sunken Japanese fishing vessel, Ehime Maru, is seen in this image taken by video cameras mounted on the remote-controlled, deep-diving vehicle, the Super Scorpio II, late Friday night, Feb. 16, 2001, in 2,003 feet of water. The 190-foot Japanese fishing vessel sank Feb. 9 when it was struck by a U.S. submarine.
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U.S. NAVY VIA AP

Dents on the body of the Ehime Maru are seen in this video footage released by U.S. Navy to the relatives of nine missing people in 2001. The image of the sunken ship was filmed by unmanned Navy submersible Super Scorpio II in waters some 600 meters (654 yards) deep off Hawaii.
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U.S. NAVY VIA AP / 2001

National Transportation Safety Board inspectors examine the aft escape trunk on USS Greeneville while the sub is dry docked at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in 2001. The submarine collided with the Japanese fishing vessel "Ehime Maru" approximately 9 miles off the coast from Diamond Head in Hawaii.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Coalition, the City and County of Honolulu and the Hawaii Buddhist Council and the United Nations Association of Hawaii conduct a bell ringing ceremony at the Nagasaki Peace Bell on the Honolulu Hale Civic Grounds. The ceremony is in remembrance of those who died in the Ehime Maru sinking. Pictured is Rev. Taido Kitagawa ringing the Nagasaki Peace Bell.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

Ryosuki Terada, father of missing student Yusuke Terada aboard the Ehime Maru, is besieged by the press following the first morning of the Navy Board of Inquiry at Pearl Harbor in 2001.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

Parents and children of the missing crew and students of the Ehime Maru hold a press conference at the Japanese Cultural Center following the first day of the Navy Board of Inquiry at Pearl Harbor in 2001.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

Ryosuke Terada, left, looks down solemnly down during a press conference held by the parents and children of the missing crew and students of the Ehime Maru following the first day of the Navy Board of Inquiry in 2001.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

Left to right: Kazuteru Segawa, son of missing Ehime Maru sailor Hirotaka Segawa and Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi, father of missing student Takeshi Mizuguchi attend a press conference at the Japanese Cultural Center following the first day of the Navy Board of Inquiry at Pearl Harbor in 2001.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

Mikie Nakata, mother of missing Ehime Maru student Jun Nakata, wipes tears from her eyes during a press conference at the Japanese Cutural Center in 2001.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2001

Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the USS Greeneville, left, is hugged by Dale Long, right, The Grenneville Sun circulation director and representative of Greeneville on March 8, 2001, outside the Trial Service Office in Pearl Harbor. Waddle is one of three Greeneville officers who are the subject of a Court of Inquiry, Navy's highest level administrative investigation, into the Feb. 9 sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fisheries high school training vessel off the waters of Oahu, after a collision with the nuclear attack submarine.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2001

Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the USS Greeneville, leaves the Trial Service Office in Pearl Harbor on March 7, 2001. The court of inquiry is looking into the Feb. 9 collision between the Greeneville and the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, center, offers prayers with family members who lost their loved ones in the Feb. 9 collision after throwing a bouquet flowers in the water where the accident happened, off the coast of Honolulu in 2001. Mori visited the site of the fatal collision between the submarine USS Greeneville and the Japanese fishing school boat Ehime Maru, after his summit talk with President Bush in Washington. Family members are from left: Mitsunori Nomoto, Kazuo Nakata, his wife Mikie amd Hiroko Kiriyama.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

Aboard the Japanese naval ship, Chihaya which will be involved in the cleanup operations after the remains have been removed from the Ehime Maru. Diver Yuuji Kusano is fitted into scuba diving gear by crew members in a demonstration for the press.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

Aboard the Japanese naval ship, Chihaya which will be involved in the cleanup operations after the remains have been removed from the Ehime Maru. Diver Hideki Saino and Yuuji Kusano are fitted into scuba diving gear and hoisted over the side of the ship in a demonstration for the press.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

Three parents of victims killed in the Ehime Maru sinking speak to the media during a press conference at Ala Moana Hotel lobby. At far right is Masumi Terata, mother of Ehime Maru student Yusuke Terata, Kazuo Nakata (center), father of Jun Nakata, who was a teacher aboard the Ehime Maru, and next to him is Ryosuke Terata, father of Ehime Maru student Yusuke Terata.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

The Crowley barge moored off the airport to be used in the recovery operations of the Ehime Maru. A Navy security boat is in the foreground to enforce the naval defensive zone around the area.
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COURTESY U.S. NAVY / 2001

Divers with Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit ONE conduct and external survey of the Ehime Maru at a shallow water recovery site off Honolulu.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

Families of the missing Ehime Maru crewmen, watch aboard the Hilton Rainbow 1 as divers conduct recovery efforts.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

A Japanese priest from the Hawaii Buddhist Association leaves the Nuuanu Mortuary after attending the memorial service for the victims of the Ehime Maru sinking.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2001

Masumi Terata, mother of drowned Ehime Maru victim, Yusuke Terata, bears the portrait of her son as his casket is moved from the Nuuanu Mortuary Chapel on Wednesday evening following memorial services there.
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COURTESY U.S. NAVY / 2001

U.S. Navy divers swim along Ehime Maru during recovery operations off Honolulu International Airport's reef runway.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2001

USS Salvor was the submarine rescue vessel which was used during the Ehime Maru recovery operations.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2003

Miyako Sakashima and Mikiko Yamashita, relatives of drowned Ehime Maru sailor Toshiya Sakashima, place flowers on the memorial dedicated to the Ehime Maru during ceremonies at Kakaako Waterfront Park to commemorate the second anniversary of the collision with the submarine USS Greeneville.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2003

Ehime Vice Gov. Mizue Maeda bows and places a flower on the memorial at Waterfront Park dedicated to the sailors of the Ehime Maru killed in a collision with the submarine USS Greeneville. The ceremony marked the second anniversary of the incident.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2003

Flowers sit atop the memorial dedicated to the victims of the Ehime Maru sinking.
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GEORGE F. LEE / 2003

Doris Doughty and her husband Harry Doughty of Sierra Vista, Ariz., make a stop on their Monday evening walk in 2003 at Kakaako Waterfront Park to read the inscription on the memorial to the victims of the Ehime Maru sinking.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2003

The Ehime Maru shipmates arrange their offerings around the Ehime Maru memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2003.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2003

The Ehime Maru crew, students and teachers place flowers and other offerings on the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2003.
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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / 2006

About 100 members of the Roppongi Male Chorus Club pay tribute to nine Ehime Maru victims at Kakaako Park in 2006. They sang "Sea of Hope," in both Japanese and English.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2006

Miyako Sakashima, of Japan, mother of drowned Ehime Maru student Toshiya Sakashima, prays in front of the "Ehime Maru" Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2006. Five years ago this week, a U.S. Navy submarine rammed into a Japanese fisheries school training vessel off Oahu, sinking the ship and taking the lives of nine students, teachers and crew members.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2006

Students from St. Louis High School host Japanese exchange students from Uwajima Fisheries High School following the arrival of the new Ehime Maru starting with a short ceremony at the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2006. The Japanese students drape origami cranes that they made on the memorial.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2007

The family of Hiroshi Makizawa places flowers and leis at the Ehime Maru memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park during a memorial ceremony in 2007.
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JAMM AQUINO / 2011

Bereaved family members of the victims of the Ehime Maru drape leis on the memorial during the 10-year anniversary Memorial Ceremony at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2011.
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JAMM AQUINO / 2011

Noriko Kansaki, right, of the Sifu Society of Hawaii, embraces Miyako Sakashima during the Ehime Maru 10th anniversary Memorial Ceremony at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2011. Sakashima's son, Toshiya, was one of the victims who died.
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JAMM AQUINO / 2011

Flowers and lei surround the memorial and framed pictures of the Ehime Maru victims during the Ehime Maru 10th anniversary Memorial Ceremony at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2011.
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JAMM AQUINO / 2013

Japanese government Consul General Toyoei Shigeoda, left, pays his respects while presenting a wreath during the 12th annual memorial service for the Ehime Maru at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2013.
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JAMM AQUINO / DEC. 26, 2016

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives with his delegation during a floral tribute at the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2016.
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JAMM AQUINO / 2017

A lei is placed on the Ehime Maru memorial during the 17th anniversary memorial ceremony for the Ehime Maru at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2017.
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JAMM AQUINO / 2017

Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi, whose son, Takeshi, died aboard the Ehime Maru, embraces his interpreter during the 17th anniversary memorial ceremony for the Ehime Maru at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2017.
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JAMM AQUINO / 2017

Musician Jake Shimabukuro, right, shakes hands with Tokihiro Nakamura, governor of Ehime Prefecture, during the 17th anniversary memorial ceremony for the Ehime Maru in 2017 at Kakaako Waterfront Park.
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JAMM AQUINO / FEB. 9, 2017

Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi, whose son, Takeshi, died aboard the Ehime Maru, bows his head in front of the memorial during the 17th anniversary memorial ceremony for the Ehime Maru at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2017.
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JAMM AQUINO / JUNE 4, 2018

Their Imperial Highnesses Prince (Fumihito), third from right, and Princess (Kiko) Akishino, second from right, listen to Sal Miwa, left, chair of the Japan American Society of Hawaii talk as JASH president Reyna Kaneko stands at right during a wreath laying ceremony at the Ehime Maru memorial inside Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2018.
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JAMM AQUINO / DEC. 26, 2016

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets participants during a floral tribute at the Ehime Maru Memorial at Kakaako Waterfront Park in 2016.

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