Thanking Britons for help to quake-hit Japan

LONDON, Britain - Marine adventurer Chikara Nakamura (L), 60, and his brother Hidetaka, 63, who is a seaman, hold letters of thanks written by local government chiefs in northeastern Japan hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami inside the London city office on July 11, 2012. The brothers met with Deputy Mayor of London Victoria Borwick after crossing the Straits of Dover by sea kayak in a gesture of gratitude for the help offered by British citizens to the victims of the disaster.