Japanese Boy Who Went Missing in Forest Found

The Associated Press WATCH Japanese Boy Found After Being Abandoned in Forest The 7-year-old Japanese boy who went missing nearly a week ago after his parents left him in a forest as punishment 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 punishment on Saturday. The couple told Japanese TV news that they left him in a forest, reputed as ridden with bears, and when they returned several minutes later he had vanished. “I really 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 (Tah-noh-oh-kah), the name of [...]
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