TOKYO -- A Japanese destroyer grazed a Cambodian-registered freighter at a Vietnamese port Monday, but no one was injured in the incident, Japan's navy said.
The destroyer Hamayuki was trying to dock at the Ho Chi Minh port in southern Vietnam under the guidance of a pilot boat when the collision took place, Maritime Self-Defense Forces spokeswoman Mika Soma said.
Hamayuki's stern rubbed against the Cambodian-registered Masan, bending its own flagpole and scraping some paint off the freighter, Soma said.
The Hamayuki was on a monthlong training expedition with two other Japanese destroyers.
The incident came days after another Japanese destroyer collided with a Japanese fishing boat near Tokyo, leaving two fishermen missing and causing a national uproar.
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