Japan tsunami debris washes up on US beach

A nearly-70ft dock torn from a fishing port in northern Japan during the tsunami drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean and floated ashore on an Oregon beach.

A commemorative plaque on the dock showed it was one of four owned by Aomori Prefecture (state) that broke loose from the port of Misawa on the northern tip of the main island, Deputy Consul Hirofumi Murabayashi said from Portland.