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Harley-Davidson Swept Away by Japanese
Tsunami Reaches Canada – and Finds its Owner
Last month, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle washed up on a Canadian
islandafter a journeyed
of 4,000 miles across the Pacific. The bike was lost during last year’s
Japanese tsunami and was discovered on April 18 by Peter Mark, a
resident of B.C.’s Haida Gwaii, who was exploring a remote beach on Graham
Island on his ATV. Mark found the rusted bike in a large white container
that was part of a Japanese moving truck. The Candadian saw the Japanese
license plate and realized that the bike might have been part of the
Japanese tsunami debris carried by the ocean currents, so he called a
local TV station.
After the story broke,
a Harley-Davidson representative in Japan saw the news in the media and
tracked down the owner of the bike. The owner was Ikuo Yokoyama, a 29-year-old
resident of the town of Yamamoto, in Miyagi Prefecture, the part of Japan
that was hit the hardest by last year’s tsunami. “This is unmistakably
mine. It’s miraculous,” Yokoyama told Nippon TV when shown photos of
the motorcycle. He said that he used the container, a back section
of a van, as a storage shed for his Harley before it was washed away.
He bought the bike five years ago and toured Japan on
it. Yokoyama, who currently lives in a
temporary accommodation, lost three family members and his home in
the tsunami. The Harley-Davidson
dealership that sold the motorcycle to Yokoyama wants to ship the bike back to
Japan and restore it for the owner.
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