Tiny boat swept away in 2011 disaster may have reached the waters off the US west coast
A fishing boat has reappeared on the shores of Japan almost a decade after it was swept out into the Pacific – and possibly as far as the west coast of the United States – by a huge tsunami that killed thousands of people and triggered a nuclear disaster.
The tiny boat was found off Hachijo island earlier this month, nine years and nine months after it disappeared into the ocean off Kesennuma, a town 650km [403 miles] to the north.
