Japan Today
Date: June 23, 2018

A Japanese man flew to Taiwan on Friday to personally thank a Taiwanese man who rendered assistance to his son after he was fatally struck by falling rocks while mountain biking at a national park in eastern Taiwan last year.

Ryoichi Shirai thanked Huang Po-hsien for coming to the aid of his son, Hiroyuki, while he lay bleeding on the ground after the accident on Sept 9 last year in Taroko National Park.

“If I saw somebody lying on the ground seriously injured, I might have fled or not known what to do,” Shirai said.

Hiroyuki was familiarizing himself with the route of an international mountain biking contest scheduled for the following day at the park when the accident happened at the entrance of a tunnel.    [FULL  STORY]