Gold gifts mystify tsunami-wracked Japan city
- Published: 22 Feb 2013 at 16.43
- Online news: Asia
A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami disaster remains mystified more than two weeks after receiving anonymous gifts of gold bars worth over $300,000.
A fisherman sits on the roof of a destroyed house while looking for missing family members in Minamisanriku, Japan on March 28, 2011. A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami disaster remains mystified more than two weeks after receiving anonymous gifts of gold bars worth over $300,000.
A fish market in Ishinomaki, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) northeast of Tokyo, received a parcel containing gold bars weighing a total of two kilograms (4.4 pounds) in early February, about a month ahead of the disaster's second anniversary on March 11.
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