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The tragedy of the Ehime Maru and the role of baseball in the healing process.
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Nine
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March 22, 2008
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- Ardlino, Frank
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The tragedy of the Ehime Maru and its aftermath illustrates an important aspect of human reaction to calamities. Official apologies, culturally sensitive recovery and treatment of the dead, financial settlements, and time all played essential parts in the healing process, but what aided the final reconciliation was young boys from both countries playing baseball. The games played in Japan and Hawaii helped those affected by the tragedy to move beyond it and to forge new ties of friendship and cooperation.
On February 9, 2001, at 1:43 p.m., nine miles south of Diamond Head, the famous Honolulu landmark, a terrible naval accident occurred. (1) A Japanese fishing trawler, the ...
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Ehime Maru captain to assist in salvage
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
August 27, 2001 ;
284 words
......Onishi, captain of the Ehime Maru, will help out in...structure of the Ehime Maru, which lies about...search inside the Ehime Maru once the sunken ship...remains of the missing crew members on where to search...five to seven of the crew members are ...
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2 Ehime Maru crew to get compensation
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
June 19, 2002 ;
276 words
......Japan >> Two crew members who survived a fatal...said yesterday. The two crew members of the Ehime Maru, which sank after being...labor-related disaster by the Ehime branch of the fund...to the fund. The two crew members, aged 51 and 52, were...the PTSD of ...
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A deadly underwater adventure A US submarine destroys a Japanese boat full...
The Independent - London;
February 16, 2001 ;
Richard Lloyd Parry;
787 words
......politics. The Ehime Maru was the pride...Hawaii, the Ehime Maru met its destiny...outcome of the Ehime Maru tragedy depend...those aboard the Ehime Maru - 20 crew members and two teachers...Students and crew inside scarcely...out of it. The ...
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63 divers to help salvage Ehime Maru
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
August 15, 2001 ;
350 words
......the bodies of crew members of the Japanese...training ship Ehime Maru, which sank after...operation after the Ehime Maru is moved from...aboard the 499-ton Ehime Maru were lost in the...to seven of the crew members are entombed in...of the missing ...
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DIVERS CONTINUE SEARCH OF EHIME MARU
United Press International;
October 20, 2001 ;
290 words
......Divers continue search of Ehime Maru HONOLULU, Oct 20, 2001...the murky interior of the Ehime Maru Saturday in hopes of finding...vessel. Six of the nine crew members and students who were lost...probing the interior of the Ehime Maru would likely recover no...hazards ...
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DIVERS PREPPING EHIME MARU WRECK
United Press International;
October 16, 2001 ;
242 words
......16-2001 Divers prepping Ehime Maru wreck HONOLULU, Oct 16...descending to the wreck of the Ehime Maru Tuesday to make preparation...recover the remains of nine crew members and students believed still...fisheries training vessel. The Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii ...
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Former submarine captain apologizes to young Ehime Maru victim's parents
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
December 16, 2002 ;
330 words
......the parents of one of the crew members killed in the accident. Retired...the nine killed aboard the Ehime Maru, a vocational fishing school...when it surfaced beneath the Ehime Maru, sinking the vessel off the...Hawaii on Feb. 9, 2001. The Ehime Maru had been carrying ...
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Navy begins Ehime Maru redress talks
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
April 15, 2001 ;
Kakesako, Gregg K;
787 words
......Fisheries High School and 10 crew members of the Japanese vessel. The Ehime Maru was on the final leg of...sub surfaced beneath the Ehime Maru nine miles off Waikiki...Greeneville's collision with the Ehime Maru on Feb. 9: face=+Bold...
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Navy readies for Ehime Maru recovery
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
August 3, 2001 ;
Kakesako, Gregg K;
787 words
......sunken Japanese fishing training vessel Ehime Maru, but it is not confident that all of...Rockwater 2 begin to lift the 750-ton Ehime Maru from a depth of 2,000 feet. Rear Adm...structural integrity" of the 190-foot Ehime Maru can withstand the pressure as it is being...
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Ehime Maru mast being removed
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
July 20, 2001 ;
Kakesako, Gregg K;
391 words
......belonging to the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru, which sank near Diamond Head five months...submarine. Removing at least one of the Ehime Maru's three masts, cargo nets and fishing...winches or cranes from the deck of the Ehime Maru. The middle mast from the three-deck...
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Miscues fail to dim Navy's optimism about Ehime Maru
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
September 7, 2001 ;
Kakesako, Gregg K;
530 words
......sunken Japanese fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru. Tanaka will be stopping here after attending...are involved in attempts to raise the Ehime Maru and the search for the nine missing people...Prefecture, which operated the ill-fated Ehime Maru. The students left today on a ...
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Ship to make 4th try to put wire under Ehime Maru
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
September 2, 2001 ;
Kakesako, Gregg K;
494 words
......expected to return today to the site where the Ehime Maru sank for its fourth attempt at partially...the 830-ton vessel snapped, dropping the Ehime Maru 24 feet. The stern of the 190-foot Ehime Maru was being raised so a wire could be run...
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Navy will close chapter on tragic Ehime Maru story this weekend
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
November 21, 2001 ;
Kakesako, Gregg K;
434 words
...Guided by schematic drawings of the Ehime Maru and a drawing by the 6-year-old son of...during the collision that the 190-foot Ehime Maru will be taken to its final resting site...only by a pinging signaling device. The Ehime Maru was only taken to a site near the Honolulu...
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Ehime Maru salvage effort hits major snag
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
September 1, 2001 ;
Kakesako, Gregg K;
481 words
......million attempt to raise the 830-ton Ehime Maru from the floor of the Pacific Ocean is...to try for the third time to lift the Ehime Maru to correct a problem with a rigging line...the mission because the sling carrying Ehime Maru broke and the vessel fell 24 feet. Pacific...
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Navy readies sunken Ehime Maru for move
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
July 18, 2001 ;
540 words
......of the Japanese fishing training vessel Ehime Maru. Preparing to move the vessel to a shallow...Ocean Hercules began the job of cutting Ehime Maru's guy wires and communication wires from...site nine miles south of Diamond Head. The Ehime Maru is sitting upright on the muddy bottom ...
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