"My son, come back, give it back to me" - Father writes after first grader chokes to death on quail at school lunch

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"My son, come back, give it back to me" - Father writes after first grader chokes to death on quail at school lunch

The 26th marks one year since a first-grade boy (7 years old at the time) at a municipal elementary school in Miyama City, Fukuoka Prefecture, choked to death on a quail egg served as part of his school lunch. The father of the deceased boy shared his feelings in a letter to the media through the city's Board of Education, saying, "I wish I could have spoken to my son one more time." The full text is as follows: [Furuhata Hidemine]