TOKYO: Japan’s military on Wednesday joined the search for a seven-year-old boy missing in the country’s north since his parents said they abandoned him in a bear-inhabited mountain forest, officials said.
A total of 75 personnel from the Ground Self-Defence Force -- Japan’s army -- joined some 130 fire rescuers, police officers and volunteers to look for the boy, rescuer Satoshi Saito told AFP by telephone.
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