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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Collision in Pacific raises questions / State-of-the-art destroyer apparently failed to notice 15-meter fishing boat

The scandal-ridden Defense Ministry has been rocked again, this time by the collision of a Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis-equipped destroyer with a small fishing boat off the coast of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture early Tuesday.

The question that must be answered is how a state-of-the-art destroyer boasting advanced air defense capabilities did not notice a small fishing vessel ahead of it, in what is the first major MSDF accident since 1988, when 30 people were killed when the submarine Nadashio and a fishing boat collided off Yokosuka Port in Kanagawa Prefecture.

The two people on board the boat--58-year-old Haruo Kichisei and his 23-year-old son, Tetsuhiro--had not been located as of 7 p.m., and their family and other members of the local community were waiting anxiously to hear the results of the rescue attempt.

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