Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Photo source: ©© Wikimedia Commons
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An explosion on an oil tanker off the Japanese coast set off a huge fire Thursday and left the vessel’s captain missing.
Ships and aircraft battled the blaze on the Shoko Maru, a 998-ton tanker anchored about 5 kilometers (3 miles) off the port of Himeji in western Japan, the coast guard said…
The tanker wasn’t loaded when the blast went off Thursday morning, the coast guard said, reducing fears of a major environmental disaster…
