Japan has asked for a boat back that has washed up in America following the massive 2011 tsunami.
Officials from the Japanese city of Rikuzentakata said it is in a 'giddy state of shock' and would love to get the boat back now it has been found in northern California.
The 20ft boat was been discovered in the town of Crescent City, midway between the cities of San Francisco and Portland.
Wanted: The boat, now parked at the Sheriff's Office impound lot, has been cleaned of its barnacles after it was washed up in California
The boat had travelled a distance of some 5,500 miles.
The Japanese found out where the boat was after officials in the U.S. posted a picture on Crescent City’s Facebook page.
Just hours later, a teacher from a school in Japan, said the boat was their's.
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Humboldt State University geologist Lori Dengler says she posted the photos recently after a university librarian translated the name of the high school from the boat.
The earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan in 2011 was the most powerful in the country’s history, and killed more than 16,000 people.
When the deadly tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, about five million tons of debris was dragged into the Pacific Ocean, according to Japanese government estimates.
In March 2011, the tsunami flooded over the breakwater protecting the coastal city of Miyako at Heigawa estuary
A catamaran sightseeing boat that was thrown by the tsunami onto a two story building, at Otsuchi town
A boat that washed ashore in Washington state on March 22, 2013
Most of the flotsam and jetsam later sunk to the bottom, but about 1.5 tons of debris continued floating across the ocean.
Some of tsunami remnants found their way to American shores, including two docks that made landfall in Washington and Oregon. But the only living organisms that were discovered on the docks included plant life and invertebrate like limpets and barnacles.
Last June, a 70ft dock landed on a beach north of Newport. It was determined to be one of four docks that broke loose from the Port of Misawa on Honshu, Japan, the station KOIN reported.
In December 2012, a second Japanese dock drifted ashore on the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington.
Prior to the discovery of the fish on the skiff, scientists believed that no species could survive a long journey across the ocean, and that only large objects, like docks, could support life.