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Mar. 31 Smart dog who located starving girl in Japanese alps gets special decoration: Before a big crowd at Ueno Zoo, Tokyo a German Shepherd named Chic Brooks received a special decoration collar from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police department for finding a girl lost in the mountain for a week and at the point of dying from starvation. Miss Haruko Sakai, age 18, a third year student of the Seika Senior High School at Osegahara, Nikko got separated from a party of climbers in the Japanese Alps on August 9. All efforts to find her were fruitless, and the search was abandoned after a week. It was then that the dog was brought to the mountains as a last resort, and she located the girl in two hours almost dead from starvation and exposure.The smart dog, a female of seven years, is owned by Mr Naoyoshi Uchida of Fukagawa, in the Koto Ward. Photo shows Chic Brooks being decorated with his special collar by an official for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, her proud owner Mr Naoyoshi Uchida holds the dog. Miss Sakai the rescued girl is still in hospital recovering from her experience
