High-tech warship collides with fishing boat


Oops! Killed a few more civilians.


Military experts sounded alarm Wednesday over the Japanese military’s ability to defend the country after one of its most advanced naval destroyers crashed into a fishing boat, leaving two missing…

The 165-metre-long Atago destroyer, returning from a visit to Hawaii, crashed into the tuna-fishing boat off the Pacific coast south of Tokyo.

“I may not come off as an expert, but I wonder whether the fishing boat was not detected by the radar,” said Yoshimi Watanabe, Japan’s state minister in charge of administrative and regulatory reforms.

“What if it had been a terrorist boat on a suicide bombing?” he said.

Watanabe probably violated Japan’s Homeland Security laws by even asking that question.

Posted: Thu - February 21, 2008 at 09:17 AM