Soccer ball lost in Japan's tsunami found off Alaska

Soccer ball lost in Japan's tsunami found off Alaska

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows 16-year-old Misaki Murakami, a second-year high school student in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2012. A soccer ball, believed to belong to him, was found on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska after apparently floating across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from the northeastern Japanese city in the March 2011 tsunami. Murakami received the ball from classmates in March 2005, when he was in third grade, as a farewell gift before he transferred to another school in the city.

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