AKIPRESS.COM - Yamato Tanooka, the boy who was left in the woods in what his parents had thought would be a brief punishment – and who had been missing in northern Japan for six days – has been found, The Two-Way reports referring to local media reports.

Police said the boy is in relatively good health. Officials are now working to confirm that he's the boy they've been looking for since Saturday.

Hundreds of people had taken up the search for the seven-year-old who was lost in bear-inhabited woods in Hokkaido, a large island in northern Japan. Citing police, the boy seems not to have suffered any noticeable trauma.

The boy was found Friday morning (local time) at a Self-Defense Forces training site and identified himself as the missing child.

On NHK's Japanese-language site, the agency says the boy was found at training grounds that are four kilometers north of where the boy went missing. NHK says that after he confirmed his name to SDF personnel, the boy was taken by helicopter to a hospital. The agency adds that the boy seemed to be hungry.