(FILES) This file picture taken on March 29, 2011 shows a 10-metre-high pine tree standing after a massive earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture. A local government in northern Japan is seeking funds to preserve the so-called “miracle pine” tree that survived the 2011 tsunami, officials said on June 28, 2012. The city of Rikuzentakata will open a Facebook page on July 5 to ask for donations for the tree — the sole survivor among some 70,000 pines which were swept away after a tsunami engulfed the region on March 11, 2011. AFP PHOTO / FILES / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA