Japanese submarine smashes into civilian ship

TOKYO - A Japanese submarine collided with a civilian cargo ship during exercises in waters off southern Japan Tuesday, denting the military vessel but causing no injuries, officials said.

The Maritime Self-Defense Forces submarine grazed the civilian vessel during surfacing exercises about 30 miles off the southeastern coast of Miyazaki on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, a defense agency spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in accord with agency policy.

Goodness, every so often a story comes along and warms the heart. Maybe it's just me but I can't help but think a perfectly feasible reasoning behind this "accident" was that the military grade submarine mistook the cargo ship as none other than enemy of all that is good and pure, Gamera! We all know that Japanese waters are full of giant bestial forms of common day animals, it can be quite strenuous to accurately identify every large moving mass off their shores.

Yep, that's the only thing that makes sense.

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