April 4, 2023
The Miyakojima local government is considering exhibiting the box before returning it to Rikuzen-Takata.
A plastic box found on a beach in Miyako Island on March 19 bears the text “Rikuzen-Takata City Board of Education.” Rikuzen-Takata in Iwate Prefecture, about 2,200 kilometers from the island, was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Courtesy of Toshitaka Agata