On Middleton Island, in the Gulf of Alaska, David and Yumi Baxter recently found a soccer ball and a volleyball, both of which had Japanese handwriting on them that helped identify the owners. The soccer ball came from a school in the tsunami zone and belonged to Misaki Murakami, 16, who lost all his possessions in the catastrophe, which struck Japan on March 11, 2011, killing 19,000 people. The v