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Ghost fishing boat returns to port ten years after tsunami washed it away

It had fish and crabs in on-board puddles [Photo: Newsflash]

A fishing boat that went missing during a powerful Japanese tsunami has been found 10 years later on a Pacific island. The small fishing vessel disappeared from the city of Kesennuma in the north-eastern Japanese region of Tohoku following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

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