Then they had spotted a small, unarmed Japanese supply junk.

The survey was carried out before the March earthquake that caused massive disruption to Japanese supply chains.

I still suspect it is only temporary and might have something to do with the Japanese supply disruption.

A Japanese supply ship carried out its last refueling operation on Monday under the current law, which expires Nov. 1.

The other night I crept out through the secret way to the Japanese supply house to see how it was done.

Japan is the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, taking over 500,000 bpd or over 12 percent of Japanese supply.