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...nothing prepared them for the shock of hearing that an American submarine, nuclear-powered and laden with the world's most sophisticated electronic gear, sprang without warning out of the waters near Hawaii, smashing into and sinking the Ehime Maru, a training vessel from the Uwajima Fisheries High School. Nine local men and boys are still lost at sea. As more and more incomprehensible details about the incident became known?the surfacing exercise was for the entertainment of visitors, two civilians were at the controls, the submarine crew appeared to make no effort to take survivors aboard, the search...
...service personnel in Okinawa?who make up half of the 47,000 stationed in Japan?have been similarly subjected to censure for repeated outrages such as raping a 12-year-old Okinawan and taking pictures up unsuspecting girls' skirts. Last week, four days after the sinking of the Ehime Maru, Okinawa police asked the U.S. to turn over a Marine suspected of arson attacks on several nightclubs in late January...
Mori?bumbling, indecisive and remote?has seen his approval rate drop below 16%, and that was before the notoriety he gained from his refusal to cut short a golf round to come back to Tokyo to deal with the Ehime Maru accident. Calls for his resignation are ricocheting around the Diet office buildings in Tokyo. Mori is scheduled to journey to the U.S. to meet President Bush in early March, a visit that has been hastily moved ahead because of the submarine accident. But, says Midori Matsushima, a Diet member from the Mori faction of the Liberal Democratic Party...
...when hope of finding the missing finally does fade, there will be pressure to recover the bodies, even if that means raising the Ehime Maru from 530 m down on the seabed. Japanese custom requires that families bury their dead?or some artifact from them?so that their souls are not condemned to an eternity of restless roaming. For the people of Uwajima, a town that has not lost a boat at sea for more than 50 years, this is a crucial matter of closure...
...ongoing investigation into the deadly February 9 collision of the USS Greeneville and the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru was going nowhere fast. Civilians and Navy personnel on board the submarine that day reported that careful and routine surveillance did not at any time reveal the presence of ships nearby. On Tuesday, however, National Transportation Safety Board officials revealed that the sub's sonar had in fact picked up the Maru just over an hour before the collision. In addition, the Greenville's fire control technician, who's responsible for plotting the sub's position using sonar contacts, told investigators...