I grew up on the Oregon coast, and there are some interesting records and histories of Japanese ships washing up on the western shores of the Pacific. Pacific

I grew up on the Oregon coast, and there are some interesting records and histories of Japanese ships washing up on the western shores of the Pacific. Pacific currents will carry all kinds of things from Japan to the coast, including according to some stories, Japanese ships gone adrift in the 1600's. I can certainly attest to finding glass fishing floats on the coast as a child, and finding what clearly was a beam from a more traditional Japanese house on the Oregon coast some years after the 2011 Japanese earthquake. My point being I suppose that you can find shipwrecks of surprising origin in places you don't expect.