Osaka student cycles across N. America in 2 months

Osaka student cycles across N. America in 2 months

NEW YORK, United States - Takuya Shirasawa (L), a vocational school student in Osaka, western Japan, celebrates with his former teacher Yoshiharu Higa in New York on Sept. 15, 2014, after cycling from San Francisco to New York in about two months, emulating Higa's similar achievement.

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