Search for US poet in Japan to be scaled down

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — The weeklong search for an award-winning U.S. poet who disappeared while hiking up a volcano on a remote Japanese island has yielded no clues and authorities will scale down the search, a police official said Tuesday.

University of Wyoming professor Craig Arnold, 41, was reported missing April 27 after he failed to return from a hike on the tiny island of Kuchinoerabu-jima, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the coast of Japan's southern Kyushu island.

"We have not found anything, including his belongings," local police official Yoshiyuki Kuzuhara said.

Around 40 people — including policemen, firefighters and rescue workers — were involved in the search for Arnold, along with search dogs and a police helicopter. But Kuzuhara said the search operation will be scaled down after Wednesday.



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[Dora]

1. This pains me.

He's a good man and a strong poet. Many are worried about him and are hoping for his safe return.

[juajen]

2. I don't understand why they are calling off the search.

After all, it's an island. It seems to me that the US should send some searchers in there. Weren't they all local?