Nine Uwajima Fisheries High School students who survived a collision Friday between their training ship and a surfacing U.S. submarine off Hawaii arrived Tuesday afternoon at Kansai International Airport in Osaka aboard a Japan Airlines flight.
The JAL flight landed at 4:40 p.m.
The students, who appeared tired and sad, were greeted by five officials from the central and prefectural governments. They were then whisked into an immigration area to avoid a large group of reporters shouting questions at them.