Tsunami boy: Alaska ball mine

This soccer ball is believed to have drifted from Rikuzentakata, Japan, to Alaska following the March 2011 tsunami. A Japanese teenager has identified himself as the owner of a soccer ball that washed up on an Alaska beach last week – the first traceable debris to arrive in the United States from last year’s tsunami. Misaki Murakami, who comes from the city of Rikuzentakata – where more than 3,000 homes were destroyed, came forward on Sunday after reading news reports about the find.