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Associated Press
TOKYO — Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will visit Hawai‘i next week after meeting with President Bush in Washington, a Foreign Ministry official said today.
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| Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will visit the Islands March 20. |
Mori will visit Hawai‘i on March 20 after meeting with Bush the previous day, said ministry official Tasuku Kuwabara, who refused to provide further details.
In his meeting with Bush, the prime minister will discuss the Feb. 9 collision between a U.S. submarine and a fishery training ship that killed nine Japanese, national broadcaster NHK said.
The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and Kyodo News agency said Mori will then travel to Hawai‘i to offer flowers at the site where the USS Greeneville ripped through and sank the Ehime Maru. Twenty-six aboard the Japanese ship survived.
Mori came under harsh criticism in Japan for continuing to play golf after being notified of the collision.
Mori is scheduled to return home March 21.
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