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news Japanese miracle cow who lived 2 decades after being swept out to sea honored in bronze The Mainichi © The Mainichi The statue of Genki-kun the bull overlooks central Shoo, Okayama Prefecture, on Feb. 6, 2021. (Mainichi/Kazuki Iwamoto) SHOO, Okayama A statue of a bull who returned home alive after being swept onto the shores of an island some 90 kilometers away by typhoon flooding was unveiled here on Feb. 6. Genki-kun the bull was born on a farm in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, in 1998. In October that year, when he was about six months old, the nearby Yoshii River burst its banks during a typhoon, flooding the farm and carrying Genki-kun out into Japan s Seto Inland Sea. Several days later, the young bull was found alive on Ki Island, about 90 kilometers away, though many other cows had died or disappeared.

Yoshii riverJapan generalMainichi shimbunKazuki iwamotoJunji mizushimaMainichi kazuki iwamotoOkayama bureauOkayama prefectureMainichi theSeto inlandOkayama farmers market north villageMayor junji mizushimaஜப்பான் ஜநரல்கஜுகி இவமோடோஜுஞ்சி மிசுஷிமாஒக்யமா பணியகம்