投書の英訳 /English translation of a
contribution
It is related with the "Ehime-Maru" incident with which it collided
off Hawaii in U.S. atomic submarine" Greenville".
The new fact is clear one after another involving the U.S. atomic
submarine which it collided [atomic submarine] and sank "Ehime-Maru".
By this report, I remembered the U.S. Forces warship Omaha bombardment
incident in which grandfathers experienced by Ikeshima of Nagasaki
Prefecture.
March, 1887 (Meiji 20) U.S Omaha discharged
from 30 from the live cartridge 20 towards Ikeshima as a bombardment
exercise, while cruising the 2 or 3km offing. It is said that the
uninhabited island was thought. People of an island and others brought
the unexploded shell in it together in the elementary school. One
piece exploded and four dead persons and seven seriously injured
persons were taken out. In order that shooting training in territorial
waters of a foreign warship might break international law, it became
intergovernmental negotiation, the U.S. government opened the U.S.
court-martial preliminary examination by the Omaha aboard a war
vessel of the Nagasaki harbor, and the captain of a warship was
dismissed. However, by the court-martial in native country of the
next year, the captain of a warship was found guilty, and returned.
The U.S. government paid 20,000 yen to the victim and the bereaved
family in Japanese yen of those days in 1889. It was a maximum of
3,500 yen per one person (death). My grandfather became a serious
injury and received 1200 yen compensation. He saved it as an education
expense for the child (my father). Although this incident has appeared
in the local history of a town etc., the importance of the fact
of an incident being told correctly has not still changed a long
time ago, either. I think that I want the U.S. Forces to correspond
sincerely. The new fact is clear one after another involving U.S.
From Japanese News Paper Asahi Shinbun (2001/03/10)
The contribution of the persons concerned.