Japan began selling special government bonds Monday aimed at raising funds for reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, saying it will present buyers with commemorative gold coins imprinted with an image of the "miracle pine" that survived the killer tsunami when the bonds mature in three years.
The coins - worth ¥10,000 each, and silver coins worth ¥1,000 - are engraved with the design of the 30-meter-high pine in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, that was the only one of about 70,000 pines on a stretch of coast to survive the massive tsunami. (Japan Times)
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