Tsunami-swept shrine gate parts returned from U.S.

Tsunami-swept shrine gate parts returned from U.S.

Toshimi Takahashi (far R) listens on Oct. 3, 2015, to an official explain the process in which parts of "torii" gates at a shrine in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, swept away by the 2011 tsunami were found in the U.S. Pacific coast state of Oregon in 2013 and returned to the northern Japanese city earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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