More than 150 police and rescue workers have been searching for Yamato Tanooka in a wooded area on Mount Komagatake in Nanae, Hokkaido, the northern-most of Japan's four main islands, since he disappeared on Saturday.
However, they later admitted they had made him get out of the car to punish him for throwing rocks while playing at a river earlier in the day.
"The parents left the boy in the mountains as a punishment," a police spokesman said.
"They said they went back to the site immediately but the boy was no longer there."
Yamato's father told a journalist from Asahi TV that he had been too afraid to tell the truth when he contacted police to launch the search.
As yet, it is unclear if the parents will face charges.
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