MATSUYAMA, Ehime Pref. (Kyodo) Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture held a memorial ceremony Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of the sinking of its fishery training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii by a surfacing U.S. submarine.

Nine people, including four students, died in the accident.

Participants of the ceremony observed a moment of silence at 8:43 a.m., the time in Japan five years ago when the 499-ton vessel sank after being struck from below by the 6,080-ton USS Greeneville.