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Article: Miscues fail to dim Navy's optimism about Ehime Maru
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- September 7, 2001
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Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka is expected to meet Sunday with Navy officials at Pearl Harbor to get a progress report on the attempts to raise the sunken Japanese fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru.
Tanaka will be stopping here after attending the 50th anniversaries of the signing of the San Francisco peace and U.S.-Japanese security treaties in San Francisco tomorrow, Japanese Consulate officials said.
While here, Tanaka plans to meet with Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force members and divers who are involved in attempts to raise the Ehime Maru and the search for the nine missing people believed to be entombed in the vessel, Japanese officials said.
Also en route to Hawaii ...