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Problem:Seven-year-old had not been seen since Saturday after his parents apparently abandoned him in a forest on the island of Hokkaido as punishment 
  
 A seven-year-old boy who went missing in bear-inhabited forests in northern Japan after his parents apparently abandoned him as punishment, has been found alive. 
  
 Yamato Tanooka was found by chance by military personnel in a hut on one of its exercise areas 5km from where he is believed to have gone missing and had sustained only cuts. 
  
 The doctor who assessed him after his ordeal in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, said: “He was incredibly calm considering he had been missing for seven days. He didn’t panic at all.” 
  
 Yamato had been missing since Saturday after his parents said they made him get out of their car on a mountain road because he was misbehaving. He was reportedly without food or water. 
  
 The parents originally told police their son had got lost while they were out hiking to gather wild vegetables but later said they were angry and tried to punish him because he had thrown stones at cars and people. 
  
 After being reunited with Yamato, father Takayuki Tanooka, told reporters outside the hospital in the city of Hakodate: “The first thing I did was apologise to him for causing such an awful memory for him. 
  
 “The first thing I said to him was that I was really sorry. He nodded and said OK, like he understood.” 
  
 From now on we’ll do even more to love him Takayuki Tanooka, Yamato's father 
  
 Tanooka, 44, then apologised to his son’s school, the search teams and everyone who had supported the family through the weeklong search. “I’m overcome with emotion,” he said, pausing to fight back tears. “Really, thank you very much.” 
  
 The extraordinary survival of the boy left in a Japanese forest Read more 
  
 Tanooka conceded he had “gone too far” when he ordered his son out of the car in the forest last Saturday evening. 
  
 “We’ve raised him in a loving family, but from now on we’ll do even more to love him and keep a close watch on him as he grows up,” he said. “Our behaviour as parents went too far, and that’s something I’m extremely regretful about. I thought that what I was doing was for his own good, but, yes, I realise now that I went too far.” 
  
 News agency Kyodo said the boy was found at about 7.50am on Friday by military personnel in a building on an exercise area in the town of Shikabe in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. The area is about 5 km away from where he went missing, or 7km if travelling via the region’s forest paths. 
  
 A police spokesman said: “A Self Defence Force official who was on a drill found a boy whose age appeared to be seven. 
  
 “There was no conspicuous external injury, and the boy introduced himself as Yamato Tanooka.” 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest A screen grab from TV Asahi shows the two mattresses on which Yamato Tanooka slept. Photograph: TV Asahi 
  
 According to an SDF soldier who is familiar with the building but wasn’t there when they found him, the boy was “curled up” on a mattress and not visibly injured. The soldiers gave him rice balls and bread when he said he was hungry and thirsty. 
  
 The boy told police he had been in the drill area for several days after walking alone in the forest, Kyodo reported. However, TV Asahi and the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper said the boy told police he had walked to the hut inside the military area and taken shelter there on Saturday night, the day he went missing. 
  
 While he had no food, it appears he did have access to water. Nippon TV said there was a tap outside the hut. 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The area on the island of Hokkaido where seven-year-old boy Yamato Tanooka went missing on Saturday. Photograph: Hokkaido prefectural police 
  
 Manabu Takehara, a Self-Defence Force (SDF) spokesman, told AFP: “He looked in good health, but he was sent to hospital by medical helicopter.” 
  
 NHK TV said his parents identified their son. In a tearful telephone interview with TV Asahi, father Takayuki Tanooka said: “He looked well and didn’t appear to have lost any weight. He’s safe – that’s the most important thing. I’m so relieved.” 
  
 Yamato was healthy except for low body temperature and would be kept overnight as a precaution, a doctor told a news conference. 
  
 The area of forest in which Yamato went missing has experienced heavy rainfall, with overnight temperatures dropping to 7 degrees C (44F). 
  
 The building where the boy was found is a one-storey wooden hut with no heating. The SDF hold meetings there but it also doubles as sleeping quarters during exercises. It has two doors but one of them had been left unlocked. 
  
 More than 180 rescuers had been searching for Yamato, with the military joining the search on Wednesday. The local town of Nanae requested military support after four days of fruitless searching, with heavy rains at times hampering the search. 
  
 “We asked the SDF to go into places which people can’t easily access, such as deep crevasses along creeks,” town spokesman Mitsuru Wakayama told AFP. ||||| A 7-year-old boy was found dehydrated and hungry but otherwise healthy early Friday morning, six days after he went missing on a mountain in Hokkaido. 
  
 Yamato Tanooka was discovered by Self-Defense Forces personnel at an exercise area in the town of Shikabe, Hokkaido, 5 kilometers from where he was last seen. 
  
 The boy was found squeezed into a pile of mattresses in a Quonset-type hut that troops on a training exercise entered because it was raining. 
  
 The SDF said the site was checked on Monday morning, but the boy was not found. 
  
 Yamato told police he reached the camp on Saturday after pushing through forest. 
  
 “I didn’t have food so I just drank water,” police quoted him saying. There was a tap outside the hut. 
  
 One of the troops offered him rice balls, which he ate hungrily. 
  
 He was taken to a hospital in Hakodate in an apparent state of exhaustion. He was placed on an intravenous drip as he had symptoms of mild dehydration and hypothermia, a doctor there said. He had minor scratches on his arms and legs but was otherwise unharmed. 
  
 It was at the hospital that he was reunited with his parents and sister. 
  
 His father later told reporters he regretted the incident. 
  
 “I feel very sorry for the boy as I came down on him hard,” Takayuki Tanooka said. 
  
 He said he had apologized to Yamato. He also extended an apology to the Japanese public, acknowledging that he had “gone too far” in leaving the boy alone. He added, he had meant the best for his son. 
  
 When told that the boy had been found alive, troops involved in the search burst into applause. At his elementary school in the town of Hokuto, Hokkaido, pupils shouted in joy when the news was announced to an assembly of all 900 students. 
  
 The school’s principal and Yamato’s class teacher headed to the hospital to visit Yamato. 
  
 “I want to tell him that he did a great job and was brave,” said Yoshitaka Sawada, the vice-principal. 
  
 Tanooka’s parents told police they told the boy to get out of their car on a remote mountain road to teach him a lesson after he had thrown stones at people and cars. They drove on and then returned, to find no sign of him. 
  
 A massive manhunt involving hundreds of police, firefighters and SDF personnel took place across rough, densely foliated terrain. Police deployed a helicopter on Monday, while firefighters rode horses along forest paths as they shouted the boy’s name. 
  
 The search had been scaled back by Friday because no trace of him was found. 
  
 Tanooka’s parents initially told police the boy had gone missing when they were walking in the Nanae area to pick wild vegetables. They later admitted that they had left him there and drove off “to scare him a little bit.” 
  
 The family searched for him for about half an hour before contacting police. 
  
 His father told reporters they did not admit the truth at first because they were ashamed at what they had done. ||||| Media members gather near a military drill area in Shikabe town, on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido Friday, June 3, 2016. The 7-year-old Japanese boy who went missing nearly a week ago after... (Associated Press) 
  
 Media members gather near a military drill area in Shikabe town, on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido Friday, June 3, 2016. 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 morning by a soldier in the... (Associated Press) 
  
 TOKYO (AP) — 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 the boy who went missing, police said. 
  
 A military officer, speaking on the national broadcaster NHK, said the boy was found when a soldier unlocked the hut, about 5 kilometers (3 miles) 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 drop, but besides some minor scratches on his arms and feet, no serious risks to his health were found, a medical doctor who had examined him was quoted as saying by Kyodo. 
  
 More than 180 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 appropriate punishment. 
  
 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 pain." 
  
 Although Japan has a reputation for spoiling children, pampering them and not being strict about manners, the culture also is not as progressive in promoting the individual human rights of children, common in the West, traditionally viewing children almost as property of the family. 
  
 Abandonment and child abuse are far more common in Japan than the stereotype of the doting parent and stay-at-home mom would suggest. 
  
 The parents reportedly told police they had punished the boy for throwing rocks at people and cars while playing at a river earlier in the day. 
  
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 Associated Press Writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report. 
  
 Follow Yuri Kageyama on Twitter at https://twitter.com/yurikageyama 
  
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Solution:
Great news from Japan: After days where a grim outcome seemed increasingly likely, the boy abandoned in a forest by his parents has been found alive and physically unharmed. On Friday, soldiers found 7-year-old Yamato Tanooka in a hut at a military drill area a few miles away from where his parents had left him by the side of a forest road as punishment, the Japan Times reports. Soldiers say he was curled up on a mattress when they found him and they gave him rice balls and bread when he told them he was hungry and thirsty, the Guardian reports. He was taken to a hospital by military helicopter and was treated for dehydration and possible hypothermia. Doctors say the boy, who had been on his own since Saturday, was unharmed apart from scratches on his arms and legs. Yamato's parents told authorities that they returned five minutes after leaving the boy and found him gone. At least 180 rescuers joined the search, combing woods on the northern island of Hokkaido, which are home to a species of brown bear. It's not clear how long the boy had been in the unheated hut during a week when overnight temperatures dropped as low as 44 degrees Fahrenheit. Police say he told his rescuers he hadn't eaten but had found water to drink. Yamato's father, Takayuki Tanooka, visited his son and apologized, the AP reports. "I told him I was so sorry for causing him such pain," the father told reporters outside the hospital. He said the boy has been "raised with love," and while the punishment for throwing rocks was supposed to be for Yamato's own good, he realizes that he went too far.