Before And After Retirement, You Can Become Herioc.

Recently, A 78 Year-Old Man Found A Lost Two Year-Old Boy.

He Retired, At Age 65, From Owning A Successful Fish Market.

For The Next 13 Years He Dedicated His Life Volunteering For Others.

From Kyushu, He Drove 13 Hours To Help Find The Three-Day Lost Boy.

And this, Haruo Obata did, within two hours after arriving at the scene on an island in Yamaguchi Prefecture. There, the young boy had gone to the beach with his grandfather. Soon, wanting to go home, which was only 200 yards away, the grandfather said, O.K.  But enroute, young Yoshiki spied an attractive trail, and promptly climbed 600 yards where he rested by a stream for three days!

During this time 140 policemen, neighbors and relatives were franticly searching for Yoshiki.  They were beginning to give up hope when 78 year Haruo arrived. Remembering that two year-old year toddlers like to climb rather than go downhill, he climbed the same trail Yoshiki had taken, calling out his name. At 600 meters he heard a plaintive, “I’m here.”  After a little search there was Yoshiki, sitting on a rock, long ago having discarded his pants. Fortunately it had been a quite warm three days, and for survival Yoshiki  drank from the stream. Tucking Yoshiki into his vest, (they never did find his pants) Haruo retraced the downhill 600 yards, to an overjoyed mother and searching party.

Everyone thought a miracle from God (or Buddha) had come true!

Two year-old Yoshiki and 78 year-old Haruo became Japan’s heros. One, for surviving with no training for 68 hours and the other, for alertly finding the survivor. It's a great story of humans in action, never too young to meet life, and never too old to enjoy and be productive in life!

The above are pictures are Haruo Obata with a dragon fly on his finger
and Yoshiki  Fujimoto  who knows how to survive.