The owner has been found of a Harley-Davidson that drifted to Canada after being swept out to sea in the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
Details from the motorcycle's licence plate helped to locate Ikuo Yokoyama.
According to CBC News, Mr Yokoyama lost his home and three family members in the tsunami.
The shop that sold the motorcycle to Mr Yokoyama is now hoping to ship the Harley-Davidson back to Japan and restore it.
The motorcycle is among the first items in a wave of debris heading to the west coast of North America. Most of the debris is expected to arrive in 2013.
The Harley-Davidson motorcycle was discovered by Peter Mark on 18 April on the coast of an island in British Columbia.
Mr Mark said it was caked with "a lot of corrosion, a lot of rust", but that he could see the manufacturer's distinctive logo.
Ikuo Yokoyama told Japanese TV he had bought the bike five years ago The Canadian realised that the bike could be part of the tsunami debris after he noticed that license plate was from Miyagi prefecture, the area hardest-hit by the March 2011 disaster.
Mr Yokoyama's bike was inside a large white container he was using as a storage shed, which eventually washed away, leaving the bike partially buried in sand.
"This is unmistakably mine," Mr Yokoyama told Nippon TV when shown photos of the motorcycle. "It's miraculous."
Restoring a Harley with high (sea) millage
Restoring a Harley with high (sea) millage
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Great. We can expect 2013 to be the Year of the Garbage.Most of the debris is expected to arrive in 2013.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
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Garbage of another culture; kinda cool.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Well it takes a millage
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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I congratulate you on you're self-restraint regarding the thread title BSG.bigskygal wrote:
Garbage of another culture; kinda cool.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Thread Digression Alert!
I heard reports that a lot of Japanese currency was lost (do to the fact that older Japanese keep money at home).
I guess I'll spend more time wandering the sands at Moss Beach!
I heard reports that a lot of Japanese currency was lost (do to the fact that older Japanese keep money at home).
I guess I'll spend more time wandering the sands at Moss Beach!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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Must be a yen
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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At some point, Sean, it begins to seem futile. 
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan