A tanker smashed into the bridge linking Kansai International Airport with the mainland on Tuesday as strong winds and high waves from a powerful typhoon blasted western Japan.
The 2,591-ton Houn Maru had been anchored in Osaka Bay but was swept toward the approximately 3,700-meter-long bridge around 1 p.m., damaging the sole gateway by land to the airport that sits on a manmade island in Osaka Bay.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180904/p2g/00m/0dm/065000c
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