1.   Although the death of nine persons aboard the Japanese trawler seems wanton by any standard, I have hesitated to comment on the incident.

2.   At the time of the collision, most of the people aboard the Japanese trawler were below deck.

3.   A Japanese boat owner came forward from Uwajima, the town that lost nine people when a U.S. Navy submarine rammed a Japanese fishing trawler off Hawaii last year.

4.   But he said he had no information about whether the sonar operators ever detected the Japanese trawler.

5.   But there are no photographs of Japanese trawlers here.

6.   News that civilians were at two controls of the U.S. submarine Greeneville when it smashed into a Japanese fishing trawler enraged many in Japan and created diplomatic tensions.

7.   A surfacing Navy submarine sank a Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of Oahu on Friday.

8.   Among their topics was the ongoing inquiry into the sinking of a Japanese trawler, the Ehime Maru, by an American submarine off Hawaii last month.

9.   Capt. Robert Brandhuber was the first eyewitness of the accident with a Japanese trawler to testify at a Navy court of inquiry.

10.   His voice brimming with emotion, an officer of the Navy submarine that rammed a Japanese trawler apologized as an inquiry into the deadly accident neared its end.