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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17810123
Boy's football lost in tsunami found in Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Misaki Murakami's name was written on the ball that was swept out to sea in March 2011.
David Baxter found it more than a year later on Alaska's Middleton Island, 70 miles (112km) from the mainland.
Mr Murakami told Japanese media he was sure the ball was his and would be happy to have it back.
"I'm very grateful as I've so far found nothing that I'd owned," he told broadcaster TBS on Sunday.
Mr Murakami lives in the town of Rikuzen-takata, which was very badly hit by the tsunami.
On the day of the disaster the school boy was at home sick, but fled to higher ground when the earthquake struck, Kyodo News reported. His home was then swept away.
The ball - given to him by his classmates in 2005 when he moved schools - was found by US man David Baxter on a beach in Middleton Island.
Boy's football lost in tsunami found in Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Misaki Murakami's name was written on the ball that was swept out to sea in March 2011.
David Baxter found it more than a year later on Alaska's Middleton Island, 70 miles (112km) from the mainland.
Mr Murakami told Japanese media he was sure the ball was his and would be happy to have it back.
"I'm very grateful as I've so far found nothing that I'd owned," he told broadcaster TBS on Sunday.
Mr Murakami lives in the town of Rikuzen-takata, which was very badly hit by the tsunami.
On the day of the disaster the school boy was at home sick, but fled to higher ground when the earthquake struck, Kyodo News reported. His home was then swept away.
The ball - given to him by his classmates in 2005 when he moved schools - was found by US man David Baxter on a beach in Middleton Island.
