Tsunami-swept shrine gates to return from U.S.

Tsunami-swept shrine gates to return from U.S.

AOMORI, Japan - A smartphone photo shows on Nov. 18, 2014, a battered piece of a Japanese shrine's "torii" gate that washed up on the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon after being swept away in the 2011 tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. The inscriptions bearing a donor's name, Toshimi Takahashi, and the date of his donation became the crucial clues to tracing its origin back to a shrine in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture.

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