Japan arrests Chinese seaman over fatal collision

Japan's coast guard has arrested a Chinese crewman of a Sierra Leone-registered vessel following a deadly collision with a Japanese ship last week, UPI reported. Five people died and one remains missing -- a 61-year-old first engineer -- after the 2,962-ton freighter Jia Hui collided with the smaller, 498-ton, Japanese-registered coastal cargo ship Eifuku Maru No. 18 Friday. The dead and the missing seaman made up the crew of the Eifuku Maru, which capsized. The Jia Hui, with 13 crew, suffered little damage, the coast guard said The collision happened around 1:25 a.m. in Japanese waters 7 miles west of Izu Oshima Island, around 60 miles south of Tokyo.