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US Navy to hold Japan memorial for sailors killed in crash

By our correspondents
June 24, 2017

TOKYO: The US navy said on Friday it will hold a memorial ceremony for seven sailors killed when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan’s coast last weekend. The service will be held on Tuesday at the naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, where the badly damaged destroyer USS Fitzgerald is based, a navy spokeswoman said.