TOKYO, Oct. 19 -- Fourteen years and seven months after a tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake swept her away, the family of six-year-old Natsuse Yamane finally received her remains on October 16, bringing a bittersweet closure to years of uncertainty.

"You tried so hard. Thank you for coming back to us," said Chiyumi Yamane, 49, as she tightly held the small urn containing her daughter's partial remains, according to The Japan News.

Her husband, Tomonori Yamane, 52, and their son Daiya, 26, accompanied her to Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi prefecture, where police handed over the remains.

"We've kept you waiting for a long time," said Hiroshi Kano, Minami-Sanriku police station chief, as he presented the container wrapped in c...