2nd Japanese oil tanker passes through Strait of Hormuz

TOKYO - A crude oil tanker belonging to Eneos Holdings Inc. group has passed through the Strait of Hormuz and is headed for Japan, becoming the second Japan-bound crude oil tanker to leave the Persian Gulf since the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, according to the company and the Japanese government.

Eneos President Tomohide Miyata told a press conference on the company's earnings results that the Eneos Endeavor, owned by its group firm Eneos Ocean Corp., had exited the key waterway and resumed its voyage to Japan.