CBC News – Japanese boy missing for six days found alive in forest: police
Japanese boy missing for six days found alive in forest: police
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Last Updated:Jun 03, two thousand sixteen Two:28 PM ET
The father of Yamato Tanooka, a seven-year-old boy missing since being abandoned in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan, speaks to reporters in Hakodate on Friday. The boy, evidently unharmed and in good health, was discovered at a military base. Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Photos
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The seven-year-old Japanese boy who went missing almost a week ago after his parents left him in a forest as penalty was found unharmed Friday in an army training ground hut, police said, in a case that had set off a nationwide debate about parental disciplining.
Appearing outside the hospital the boy was taken to after he was found, his father apologized and vowed to do a better job of raising him.
“We have raised him with love all along,” said the father, Takayuki Tanooka, who along with the boy’s mother had made him get out of their car as penalty on Saturday. The duo told Japanese TV news that they left him in a forest, reputed to include bears, and when they returned several minutes later he had vanished.
“I indeed didn’t think it would come to that. We went too far,” Tanooka said. He added, “I thought we were doing it for my son’s own good.”
The boy was found Friday morning by a soldier in a military drill area on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The boy identified himself as Yamato Tanooka, the name of the boy who went missing, police said.
Yamato Tanooka, a seven-year-old boy who had been missing since May 28, was found in a hut suffering from dehydration. (Daisuke Suzuki/Kyodo News/Associated Press)
A military officer, speaking on the national broadcaster NHK, said the boy was found when a soldier unlocked the hut, about five kilometres from where he disappeared.
The boy told police he had been in the drill area for several days after walking alone in the forest.
The boy suffered some dehydration and was getting an intravenous dribble, but besides some minor scrapes on his arms and feet, no serious risks to his health were found, a medical doctor who had examined him was quoted as telling by Kyodo.
More than one hundred eighty rescuers, including troops, had been searching the area.
The boy’s plight riveted the nation, highlighted in daily news, and setting off some soul-searching about suitable penalty.
Asked what he had told his son, the boy’s father, blinking back tears, said, “I told him I was so sorry for causing him such ache.”
The parents reportedly told police they had disciplined the boy for throwing rocks at people and cars while playing at a sea earlier in the day.
Missing Japanese boy found safe after almost seven days1:41
CBC News – Japanese boy missing for six days found alive in forest: police
Japanese boy missing for six days found alive in forest: police
The Associated Press
Last Updated:Jun 03, two thousand sixteen Two:28 PM ET
The father of Yamato Tanooka, a seven-year-old boy missing since being abandoned in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan, speaks to reporters in Hakodate on Friday. The boy, evidently unharmed and in good health, was discovered at a military base. Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Pictures
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The seven-year-old Japanese boy who went missing almost a week ago after his parents left him in a forest as penalty was found unharmed Friday in an army training ground hut, police said, in a case that had set off a nationwide debate about parental disciplining.
Appearing outside the hospital the boy was taken to after he was found, his father apologized and vowed to do a better job of raising him.
“We have raised him with love all along,” said the father, Takayuki Tanooka, who along with the boy’s mother had made him get out of their car as penalty on Saturday. The duo told Japanese TV news that they left him in a forest, reputed to include bears, and when they returned several minutes later he had vanished.
“I indeed didn’t think it would come to that. We went too far,” Tanooka said. He added, “I thought we were doing it for my son’s own good.”
The boy was found Friday morning by a soldier in a military drill area on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The boy identified himself as Yamato Tanooka, the name of the boy who went missing, police said.
Yamato Tanooka, a seven-year-old boy who had been missing since May 28, was found in a hut suffering from dehydration. (Daisuke Suzuki/Kyodo News/Associated Press)
A military officer, speaking on the national broadcaster NHK, said the boy was found when a soldier unlocked the hut, about five kilometres from where he disappeared.
The boy told police he had been in the drill area for several days after walking alone in the forest.
The boy suffered some dehydration and was getting an intravenous dribble, but besides some minor scrapes on his arms and feet, no serious risks to his health were found, a medical doctor who had examined him was quoted as telling by Kyodo.
More than one hundred eighty rescuers, including troops, had been searching the area.
The boy’s plight riveted the nation, highlighted in daily news, and setting off some soul-searching about adequate penalty.
Asked what he had told his son, the boy’s father, blinking back tears, said, “I told him I was so sorry for causing him such agony.”
The parents reportedly told police they had penalized the boy for throwing rocks at people and cars while playing at a sea earlier in the day.
Missing Japanese boy found safe after almost seven days1:41