Word: maru
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...arranged by retired Admiral Richard Macke, who was forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...
...Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori came under attack from members of both his governing party and the parliamentary opposition for his decision to continue with a game of golf after hearing the news that the U.S.S. Greeneville collided with and sank the fishing trawler Ehime Maru off Hawaii. Nine people are still missing and feared dead. It is the latest in a series of gaffes that have made Mori one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers ever. Lawmakers in the three-way governing coalition are nervous about the threat of a thrashing in an election for the parliament's upper...
...Once there, the skipper ordered the blow. A pair of landlubbers--overseen by sailors--had their hands on the controls that guide the submarine and empty its ballast tanks during the rapid ascent. But it was physics, not civilians, that shot the submarine to the surface. The Ehime Maru--half as long as the 360-ft. sub and only 7% of the weight--didn't stand a chance. The impact only scratched the submarine's hull. Although the public of both Japan and the U.S. were surprised at the presence of civilians on the Greeneville, the Navy routinely invites dignitaries...
...U.S.S. Greeneville rocketed blindly from the deep like a 6,900-ton black torpedo, spewing ocean foam as its bow rose more than 100 ft. out of the Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with...
...arranged by retired Admiral Richard Macke, who was forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...