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Found this on the beach yesterday...

Looks radioactive to me.....

I'm guessing it's the name of a volleyball club on the coast of Japan. I think that last symbol has to do with the word 'Japan'.

Wrong.

Clearly you can.

If I can send this thing back, I'd like to.

Can you be of any more help?

lmao

cool find Bill, how the hell are ya? fam growing? how yo brudda?

what the hell would you know about it? way more than me, hopefully Leighton can shed some light on this.

it'd be cool if you could get it back to where it belongs and if the Japanese volleyball team can't come to thank you maybe they'll send the Swedes?

I think that's Korean, not Japanese. I certainly could be wrong though.

Trying, man. My kanji knowledge is limited, and my lady is away on a biz trip. I have to look the characters up by stroke count. Happy to help, but the tricky part is that the characters, depending on whether standing alone or as a part of a word, can have multiple meanings. Example: the last character standing alone is 'naka'. The original pictographs can often be deciphered if you understand how they came about. See here:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD

If I don't respond shortly, look for a PM in the next day or two. I will get it to you.

Here's one of the other two:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BB%99

Wrong.

First character (counting L to R) is

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B0%97

The answer to the question posed in the heading, like my friend Steelhead would say, is yes, somone can. I hear the Japanese are actually quite good at it.

I think it says "Wilson"

It says "Kesen-chu", probably Kesen-numa chugaku which is a junior high school in Miyagi Japan. Before you're impressed with my knowledge of Japanese, I had to ask a Japanese friend!

Edit: My friend says that KG is correct, that this school is likely the one in Iwate, not Miyagi.

Miyagi was in the tsunami zone, so it's possible that's where the ball came from. It would be interesting to know what became of that school.

Where'd you find the ball?

That's a good find Bill.

Is this closer? Kesennuma, Miagi (Wiki)

A translator says "chuugaku" translates to "middle school, junior high school." Another translator says that's the Kanji character that looks like a box with a line through it.

I don't know, just a quick Google. Cool find!

Bill:

I expect you'll send them an email and pic. Let us know how they respond.

Here's a little more info my friend found.

It looks like the school itself is located on the high ground so no damage to the school itself, but it says that 1/3 of the students there were affected by Tsunami and earthquake- lost their houses (being washed away or caught on fire). So I guess the ball was washed away from one of the players house when she/he took it home with. The school was used as an evacuation area for those who lived in the area and apparently some 800 ppl spent days and nights there up to October, so like for 6 months! About half of the play ground is still used as temporary housing for people who lost their houses due to the Tsunami.

That's the place, but Wiki has the spelling of Miyagi wrong.