Japanese boy who went 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 of the hospital the boy was taken to after he was found, his father apologised and vowed to do a better job of raising him.“We have raised him with love all along,” said the father, Takayuki Tanooka, who together with the boy’s mother had made him get coming from 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 take a look at that. We went too far,” Tanooka said. He added, “I thought we 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.
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