A motorcycle that was swept away by last year's tsunami in Japan and washed ashore Canada's western coast has gone on display at a museum in the United States.
The Harley-Davidson bike was on display as a treasured tsunami debris at the U.S. manufacturer's museum in Wisconsin from Wednesday as per the wish of its owner.
The motorcycle was recovered in April from Graham Island off British Columbia, about 6,500 kilometers from Japan. The license plate on the bike helped identify its owner as Ikuo Yokoyama of Japan's Miyagi prefecture, Japanese media reported.
The U.S. manufacturer decided to preserve the bike at the museum, after Yokoyama asked that it be used as a reminder of the quake-triggered tsunami of March 11, 2011 which left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing. The massive tsunami also knocked out a nuclear power plant setting off radiation and devastated Japan's north-east.
A Harley-Davidson official says Harley owners are all family regardless of their country and that the company is proud of the bike that survived the tragedy. The expensive bike will be on display at the museum until next summer, the report said.
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