Search for US poet in Japan to be scaled down

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

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