2-year-old missing boy found on Shizuoka mountain

That feeling of not knowing where your toddler is, is one of the most awful that a parent can feel. Lucky for this family.

Wow! Imagine that. I have a two year old boy and this story made me cry!

how does a 2 year old go missing? there should be an investigation as to why!

Masahiro Chubachi, 2, was found by a rescue dog

they should replace the entire Japanese police force with dogs

This rescue brought to you by Aquarius.

"How does a 2 year old go missing?" Very easily - they are little wayward buggers who want to do exactly what they shouldn't. Luckily, it is just a (very dangerous) phase, but his parents have my every sympathy, as do all parents of toddlers.

romulus3: They just do - and not just from Japanese parents, who many JT posters often so gleefully bash. Well done.

yep, I remember my son at 2.. You have to be on high alert, as they just leg it anywhere anytime they can...

Amazing the little boy could survive the night on that mountain! It was a miracle it didn't rain that night. I live there and often hike on that mountain. It is not warm at night. It's over 700 meters altitude where he was. He was probably on a north slope, which is overgrown with short trees and shrubs. Amazing they could find him! It is a real miracle.

Anomaly_Jr,

yeah but if you are out in the jungle...anyway, I am sure his parents will never take their eyes of him again.

this story made me cry!

Me too!

9:30am boy goes missing. 1:50pm dog finds boy, 1km from the campsite. What were the 200 police doing? Making sure their uniforms were neat and tidy before they began the search?

"What were the 200 police doing?"

Dogs have better noses than policemen.

Dogs will find a sleeping child, police will likely miss him on an overgrown mountain if he is not moving. A job well done by the police and the dogs.

Was there maybe a pachinko at the campsite? that would explain why the mother was not watching her kid.

Two year olds will just walk away without announcing their destination. I don't blame the parents although many hypocrites will. Just wait till it happens to you.

how does a 2 year old go missing?

Never spent much time around a 2 year old, have you?

thank God they found him and he is alright!!

My 2 year old went missing at Ueno zoo for about ten minutes. I thought she was with MIL and MIL thought she was with me. And I am so paranoid I am all for chipping children with GPS! If it can happen to me it can happen to anyone. I hope I never again have to feel what I felt for those looooong ten minutes. Parents of toddlers, you all have my sympathy!

Keep your kids on a leash if you are afraid they may go missing in forested areas or even urban areas. Or by little bells like for cats.

Now I know why some parents have those squishy annoying shoes on some kids. So everyone will know where the little troubleseekers are.

Kids's job= find any way that's possible to kill themself. Parents's job= to save them!

I can imagine the panic those parents must have felt! I went camping with my daughter when she was 2 years old once, and will NEVER, I repeat, NEVER go camping with a 2 year old again! You can't even begin to imagine how difficult it is to set up camp and watch a 2 year old at once. If we must go on vacation with a 2 year old again, it will be somewhere we aren't going to be distracted and closed in enough so the little bugger can't dissappear!

Very lucky family. Nice story with a happy ending.

Went I put my daughter on a toddler-leash once a Japanese obaachan went mental at me in the street, shouting that I was treating my child like a dog!!!

I hope you told her to shaddap and move along