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Japan Finds Child’s Body on Island, Possibly Missing Boy

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The body of a child was found on Wednesday on the coast of an outlying island in northeastern Japan, with police investigating whether it could be a six-year-old boy who went missing in the area earlier this month. The body, which was found around 11.20am on Tobishima, Yamagata Prefecture, was dressed in what appeared to […]

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Nineteen days after a 6-year-old boy went missing in Sakata City, there has been a major development. At 5:30 p.m. on the 23rd, the prefectural police announced that an unidentified body, possibly that of the missing boy, had been found on Tobishima Island. The missing boy is Yuto Takahashi (6), from Higashiizumi-cho 5-chome, Sakata City. Yuto was approximately 120 cm tall, slender, and had short black hair. At the time of his disappearance, he …

According to the Yamagata Prefectural Police, a body believed to be that of a child was found at around 11:20 a.m. on the 23rd on the beach of Tobishima, an outlying island of Sakata City. Based on the clothing, the police believe it may be a 6-year-old boy, a first-year student at a special needs school in the city, who has been missing since the 5th of this month, and are working to confirm his identity.

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熊本日日新聞社 broke the news on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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