Horie arrives in Japan from Hawaii on wave-propelled boat

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie, 69, speaks to reporters off Yura, Wakayama Prefecture, on July 5, a day after arriving in Japan to achieve his goal of crossing the Pacific on an unprecedented voyage in the Suntory Mermaid II, a boat propelled only by the power of waves.

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