Japan’s Prince Akishino, Princess Kiko Mourn Ehime Maru Victims

June 5, 2018

Honolulu- Japanese Prince Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, paid a floral tribute on Monday at a monument for the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishery high school training ship that collided with a U.S. nuclear submarine and sank off Hawaii in 2001.

The accident left nine people, including four students, aboard the Japanese ship dead.

Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko arrived in Honolulu aboard a commercial plane Monday morning.

The couple offered silent prayers at the U.S. National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, which honors U.S. servicemen who died during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

They then visited a Japanese cemetery located in an area where many people of Japanese ancestry used to live. Jiji Press