Japan - Message bottle from Japan washes ashore in Hawaii

[makoto]

Message bottle from Japan washes ashore in Hawaii

A glass bottle containing a letter and photograph of a Japanese school has washed ashore in Hawaii, 5 years after it was dropped into the ocean in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan.......

Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:03 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_12.html

 

[makoto]

Re: Japan - Message bottle from Japan washes ashore in Hawaii

Message in a bottle

The sender of the message in a bottle, 17-year-old high school student Saki Arikawa, has expressed surprise and joy at the news.......

Sunday, September 18, 2011 05:47 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/18_01.html

a photo of her elementary school classmates in the clear glass bottle

 

[Emily]

Re: Japan - Message bottle from Japan washes ashore in Hawaii

That would be fun to find something like that beach combing.

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Japan - Message bottle from Japan washes ashore in Hawaii

That would be fun to find something like that beach combing.

I agree.

 

[makoto]

Re: Japan - Message bottle from Japan washes ashore in Hawaii

18 years later, a reply from Hawaii to a message in a bottle

MINAMI-OSUMI, Kagoshima Prefecture--It might take only a few minutes to get a reply from an e-mail, but what about 18 years for sea mail?.......

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201110080257.html