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Japanese man claims motorcycle that washed up in Canada
A Harley-Davidson motorcycle believed to have traversed the Pacific Ocean to western Canada after being swept from coastal Japan during a March 2011 tsunami has been claimed by a Japanese man.
Ikuo Yokoyama, 29, of Yamamoto, Japan, says a Harley-Davidson representative tracked him down after the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. ran a story about the bike, which was found in a storage container on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii islands, the CBC reported.
Harley-Davidson now intends to restore the bike, which had rusted but still had its Miyagi Prefecture license plate, and send it back to Yokoyama, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported Wednesday.
Yokoyama, who NHK reported lost three family members and his home in the disaster, said he was "so glad that (the motorcycle) will be returned to me.”
“I would like to thank the man who found my bike in person,” Yokoyama said in an NHK interview aired on the CBC.
Peter Mark, a Haida Gwaii resident, told the CBC that he found the container - and the motorcycle, golf clubs, camping equipment and tools inside - on a beach on April 18.
“First I thought, this has got to be the craziest thing anyone has ever found,” Mark told the CBC. “Then I looked a little closer and the license had Japanese writing on it. The wall of the trailer had Japanese print on the tags. And the first thing that popped into my head was this is likely from the tsunami in Japan.”
Thousands of people in Japan were killed on March 11, 2011, during a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and a subsequent tsunami. The tsunami swept an enormous amount of debris from the island nation into the Pacific.
About 70% of the debris sank, according to Japanese government estimates, and no one knows how much of the remaining 1.5 million tons of debris still is floating in the Pacific.
But U.S. officials say some items from the disaster may be washing up on North American shores, thousands of miles from Japan, and that residents along the North Pacific should expect reports of debris to increase and continue over the next couple of years.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there is no current "debris field." Rather, items, large and small, are scattered over a huge swath of the North Pacific and may make landfall intermittently.
Last month, CNN reported that a soccer ball found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a Japanese teenager. And the U.S. Coast Guard fired on and sank a rust-stained fishing trawler - swept from Japan by the tsunami - in Alaskan waters, saying that the unmanned vessel was a hazard to mariners.
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Very nice of Harley Davidson to restore this bike and send it back to the owner. Kudos to them for doing something heartfelt for someone who lost so much during that terrible event.
The crazy thing is people and business do these types of great things every single day but NONE of that is ever Mentioned because only the worst of the world is typical publishing from the news media..The world is not as BAD as the media would have people believe...
Glad the owner survived the tsunami. And kudos to Harley for restoring his bike for him! What a classy company.
If only their customers were.
way to go Harley-Davidson great PR and nice touch
you can shine it up all nice and new but it will still be a big steaming pile of garbage. Harley Davidson is for big fat posers.
Kawabunga
get over it. Harley did a good thing; too bad you are such a bigot you can't appreciate that some people do nice things.
I've got over 150,000 miles on my '06 Street Glide. Been all over the US with no problems. Tell me again about your opinion of Harleys and I'll tell you how little I care.
You want a motorcycle with balls? Get a Harley!
Agreed, Harleys are for weekend warriors who think they are bikers. It may have balls but they always seem to be missing a few bolts.
Clad the USCG did not decide to sink it.
That is very nice of Harley-Davidson to restore & return Mr. Yokoyama's bike to him. I was impressed by the fact that a Harley rep tracked Mr. Yokoyama down after hearing about the bike 🙂 Kudo's to Harley-Davidson.
It will still be a piece of junk even after it's restored.
not to the owner
years ago, when working at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore,on Earth Day, I had a man approach me about finding an ATV on the beach. Turns out it had fell through the ice in Wisconsin and floated across Lake Michigan. When I contacted the owner her thought I was a prankster, as he'd hired a plane to search for it, and it was the talk of the small fishing town he lived in. He picked it up and took it home to clean up and fix to usable condition. Sure was a big mystery where it came from initially. Strange thing about it is that we sent out a number of press releases regarding this and, even with the Earth Day link, nobody but the local county weekly picked it up.
what do you want a medal? Get a grip! The tsunami was a bit more news worthy
With so much hate going on in the world it's soooo nice to hear about Harley-Davidson' efforts to rebuild the bike and to get it back to it's owner.......Great PR..........
While I do give Harley credit and this is a nice story, couldn't they just give the guy a new one? Maybe throw in some free gas for a year?
It was found on the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Personally I'm not a huge Harley product fan, but I tip my hat to this nice gesture. It's great PR and they deserve it.
And to the poster above, no, a new bike would not mean as much to the man as his own personal bike, brought back to great condition. In fact I'd bet this restoration will cost HD a lot more than just giving a new bike off the production line, and certainly more trouble as well. Frankly, with that kind of pure money-value thinking, I think you have little understanding of the emotional dynamics of the situation (or of bike owners in general, especially HD owners).
Cool of Harley Davidson... things like that are cheaper than commercials and touch way more hearts.
Nice humanitarian gesture from the Canadian finder and Harley. America and Canada both come across as winners.
The man who found the bike should be commended and recognized as well. Had he been an unscrupulous man, he could have possibly turned a profit from the find. Doing the right thing once the logical conclusion was made of the bikes origin, is as noteworthy as Harley Davidson's offer to restore and return the bike.
I am sure as mentioned above that a restoration is much more expensive than a new bike of the same model or better one, but that is not the point here. After all the loss, being reunited with HIS cherished old friend would mean so much more to Mr. Yokoyama. It will serve as not only a reminder of the past but the optimism of the ability to rebuild and heal. Congrats to everyone involved. It would be nice to get the finder, the owner and the rebuild team together for the presentation.