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VANCOUVER — The owner of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that washed up on B.C.’s Haida Gwaii — a rusty remnant of the devastating tsunami that struck Japan a year ago — has been identified.

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Japanese media has identified the owner of the bike as 29-year-old Ikuo Yokoyama.

“I’m very thankful that it came back,” he told local broadcaster NHK in Japanese. “I would like to thank the man who found my bike in person, but because it’s hard to do that, I’d like to thank him here right now.”

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The bike was found by Masset resident Peter Mark on April 18, poking out from a white cube container on a remote beach on Graham Island.

The container also contained a set of golf clubs, which Mark managed to salvage. The rest of the items, including camping equipment, tent poles and tools, were just a “ball of rust.”

‘I’m pretty happy. I’ve been worried the whole time that something bad had happened to him’

Mark said he found out about the good news early Tuesday morning when he got a call from a Japanese TV station.