Japan to send investigation team to Mauritius over oil leak

Japan will send an accident investigation team to Mauritius to look into the cause of an oil leak from a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off the Indian Ocean island nation in July, the country's transport minister Kazuyoshi Akaba said Friday.The five-member team will leave Japan on Sunday to carry out a two-week investigation into the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Wakashio. The probe will begin after a two-week quarantine to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.Although the Japanese government does not hav…READ FULL ARTICLE