Feel-good tsunami story of the day - Harley-Davidson owner gets his bike back

JAPANESE man Ikuo Yokoyama lost all of the things that mattered most in the tsunami that hit the island in March last year.
The giant wave claimed three members of his family and his house on March 11, 2011.
Of less importance was the loss of a storage container he was using as a garage, which was simply picked up and swept away in one piece.
Until yesterday, when Mr Yokoyama learned his "garage" had been found 6500km away washed up on a remote island off the coast of Canada.
In it was the Harley-Davidson motorbike Mr Yokoyama had bought five years ago.
He told Japanese television station some of his fondest memories were of of tours around Japan on it.
“I’m very thankful that it came back,” he told local broadcaster NHK in Japanese.
“I would like to thank the man who found my bike in person, but because it’s hard to do that, I’d like to thank him here right now.”

The man he wanted to thank was Peter Mark, who came across the container on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago on April 18.
It had completed the journey intact due to being lined with Styrofoam.
NHK rang Mr Mark yesterday to tell him they had tracked down the Harley's owner, and he was still alive.
“I’m pretty happy. I’ve been worried the whole time that something bad had happened to him," he told the National Post.
"It’s a major relief knowing he is okay,” he said.
More good news for Mr Yokohama - the person who tracked him down after seeing news items about the bike being washed up was a Harley-Davidson rep in Japan.
The company told CBC it was going to try to pay for the bike's return to Mr Yokoyama and hopefully fix it up for him.