After the Tsunami, Japan’s Sea Creatures Crossed an Ocean - The New York TimesJohn Chapman inspected a derelict vessel from Japan that had washed ashore on Long Beach, Wash. Hundreds of species from Japanese coastal waters were carried across the Pacific on floating debris generated by the 2011 tsunami.Credit...Russ Lewis TOKYO — The towering tsunami that devastated Japan six years ago also unleashed a very different sort of threat onto the distant coastline of North Americ
