U.S. couple launch program to send unclaimed bicycles to Tohoku

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Lydia Rush from the United States stands near a repaired bicycle at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Sept. 23, 2011. She and her husband Peter, a military officer at the base, have launched a program to send unclaimed bicycles from the base to people in the Tohoku region, who have lost their cars and other means of transportation in the quake and tsunami disaster.

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