"Soccer balls, motorcycles and a million other reminders of the massive tsunami in Japan a year ago are appearing along Alaska's coastlines."

"'It's safe to say that tsunami debris is here,' said Merrick Burden, director of the Juneau-based Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation.

Since January, the MCA has been tracking where and what kinds of debris is coming ashore, and whether it is radioactive (none so far) at Kodiak, Yakutat, Sitka and Craig, where wreckage was expected to hit first."

Laine Welch reports for the Anchorage Daily News May 6, 2012. [2]