TOKYO: The parents of a seven-year-old Japanese boy missing in the mountains confessed they had left him as a punishment and he did not get lost during a hike as first claimed, police said.
More than 150 rescuers and police officers were searching for a second day in mountains on the northern main island of Hokkaido after Yamato Tanooka went missing on Saturday, a police spokesman said.
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