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BBC News Online: World: Asia-Pacific

Sunday, 18 February, 2001, 15:11 GMT

In pictures: The tragedy of the Ehime Maru


Anger was aroused in Japan over the sinking of a fishing trawler by an American nuclear submarine, killing nine people. The commander of the American submarine was reprimanded at a final hearing into the accident and forced to retire from the US Navy.


The sunken Japanese fishing vessel, Ehime Maru

Japanese relatives of the missing

Navy cruiser USS Port Royal

Japan's Senior Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Seishiro Eto

The unmanned Navy submersible, Deep Drone, on the deck of the USS Salvor

Another image of the submerged trawler

Related to this story:
Top-level inquiry into trawler sinking (18 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific) US finds sunken Japanese trawler (17 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific) Sub tragedy leaves Japanese town bitter (16 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific) Sub tragedy: How drill turned to disaster (16 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific) Civilian: I was at crash sub's controls (15 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific) Civilian was at US sub controls (14 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific) Relatives visit sub collision site (13 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific) Sub victims 'to be compensated' (12 Feb 01 | Americas) Sub collision prompts review (16 Feb 01 | Asia-Pacific)

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