On a remote Alaskan beach, a man found a soccer ball washed up, with what appeared to be Japanese writing on it.

After a lot of sleuthing, the ball was returned to it's owner, Misake Murakami, a 16 year old boy, who had been given the ball in third grade by friends as a good luck gift.

This ball must indeed have good luck, since it has now made it's way back to him after being washed away by the massive tsunami, along with his house, and then traveling over 3100 miles across the Pacific to Alaska, and being found by a man whose wife was Japanese and could read the letters.