Posted on 06/06/2016 2:39:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
A human interest story at the center of the world's attention in early June 2016 concerns the seven-year-old Japanese boy Yamato Tanooka, the misdirected discipline by his parents which resulted in the child spending nearly a week alone lost in the woods, and the eventual discovery of the child, bruised but “genki” (healthy). The CBS news coverage, which is quite typical of American coverage, starts with a repetition of the bare facts known at this time, then opens up to speculation about the State's role in this kind of provocative case. Did the parents do the right thing? What is the right thing? And what should the State do for this child and to the parents?
The bare facts known to the public at this time are that young Yamato on some occasions brazenly threw stones. His parents thought he should be broken of this habit. He resisted their earlier (unspecified) attempts at discipline. Raising their discipline a notch, the parents packed Yamato in the family car, drove him along a forest road in Hokkaido, the northern Japanese island, and dropped him off along a quiet stretch of the road. How long he was left alone on the road is up for questioning. The parents now claim they left him alone only a few minutes, maybe a half-hour tops. When they returned by car they expected him to be frozen in remorse on the spot, but his fate was otherwise. He had either wandered off without a trace or had been consumed by bears foraging in the woods.
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It’s fun seeing American media try to make sense of Hokkaido sensibilities.
They de-liberalized him.
Give him a raccoon fur coat and hat and make em live like a tanooki for a while....
Nature timeout
If only he’d walked a bit farther, he could have ended up in Iraq and hired out his rock throwing skills.
Such a disciplinary stunt may be appropriate for an older child but a 7 year old? Foolish. They’re lucky the boy is ok.
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