The story of Japan's Yamato Tanooka may remind you a little of The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen. Here's how the 7-year-old survived six days in the woods all by himself, after his parents abandoned him on a mountain road.
The boy, apparently unharmed and in good health, was discovered at a military base. Reports said he had taken shelter in a hut and found a tap to drink from but was hungry and immediately asked for food when discovered.
A house in a military exercise area in the town of Shikabe in Hokkaido on June 3, 2016, where the missing boy was found by Self-Defense Forces personnel.
The boy was hungry so the soldier who found him gave him something to eat
The local Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper said the boy had told police that on Saturday night he walked some distance to the corrugated metal hut on the military base -- located some 5.5 kilometres (3.4 miles) northeast of where he went missing.
The father of a seven-year-old Japanese boy Yamato Tanooka who went missing for nearly a week after his parents abandoned him in a mountain forest as punishment apologised Friday June 03,2016 hours after his son was found safe.
"My excessive act forced my son to have a painful time," he said.
"I deeply apologise to people at his school, people in the rescue operation, and everybody for causing them trouble," he added, thanking the rescuers.
"The first thing I said to my son was, 'I'm very sorry to have caused you to face this suffering because of me,'" said the father, whose name has not been released, adding that his son nodded in return.
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