The Harley-Davidson motorcycle that drifted across the Pacific Ocean after the Japanese tsunami last year will be put on display at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the company announced Friday.

The company says the bike's Japanese owner turned down their offer to restore the bike and deliver it to him in Japan, and instead elected to have it turned into a memorial to those who died in the tsunami.
 

Owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, 29, was tracked down in Japan after the bike was identified by its licence plate. He is still living in temporary housing. The tsunami destroyed his home and killed three members of his family. 


Officials with Harley-Davidson said they offered to restore the bike and ship it to Japan, but Yokoyama decided instead to have it turned into a memorial to those whose lives were lost or forever changed by the disaster.

  
 


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