Last year's tsunami in Japan is slowing coming to the U.S. - with the first piece of marine debris to arrive in Hawaii confirmed on Friday, Sept. 21.

A large blue plastic bin arrived in Hawaii, covered with crabs and barnacles, along with three seabirds found dead inside the container. State officials put the bin in quarantine, according to the Huffington Post.

The bin was first seen floating in the ocean near Oahu's Rabbit Island on Tuesday of last week. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman Ben Sherman said Japanese officials confirmed that the bin is from Fukushima, Japan, according to the Examiner.

From the March 2011 tsunami that swept northeastern Japan, 1 million to 2 million tons of debris remain in the ocean, but only 1 to 5 percent of that could reach American and Canadian shorelines, Nikolai Maximenko said, a University of Hawaii researcher.

Friday's pieces is the 12th confirmed piece of debris to hit U.S. or Canada waters, the Post reported. Notable was a 165-ton concrete dock torn loose from a Japanese fishing port that washed ashore in Newport, Ore., in June.

The nuclear complications that resulted from the tsunami left many Japan residents without electricity. The Bradenton Herald also reported a "meltdown" at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Japan was one of the world's biggest users of atomic energy and relied on nuclear reactors as a source for 30 percent of its country's electricity. However, the publication reported that as of now, just two of their 50 nuclear stations are operational.

The six-minute tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and caused the Earth to shift on its axis, according to the report. And like other natural disasters (for example, Hurricane Katrina) those affected are still trying to recover.

According to the Examiner, Japan recently said they would offer $6 million to the U.S and Canada to help cleanup tsunami debris.