
By Hiroto Fukumori / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
16:23 JST,
October 17, 2025
MIYAKO, Iwate — The partial remains of a 6-year-old girl who had been missing since the tsunami triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake were handed over to her family on Thursday, 14 years and seven months after the water swept her away.
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