{"id":10387,"date":"2011-09-19T01:09:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T01:09:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-19T01:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T01:09:38","slug":"Japanese-girl-delighted-by-bottle-found-in-Hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10387","title":{"rendered":"Japanese girl delighted by bottle found in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Japanese teenager expressed her gratitude Sunday after a U.S. sailor in Hawaii found a bottle she had tossed into the sea off Japan&#8217;s southern coast as a child, and said she was delighted to be reconnected with her old classmates as a result.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saki Arikawa<\/strong>, 17, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and initially couldn&#8217;t believe it was found after five years.<\/p>\n<p>The clear glass bottle was found Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai 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