
November 2010, Peace Winds Japan (PWJ)staff members visited the public shelter in Hiroshima prefecture. They found a 3-4 months old puppy trembling in front of the gas chamber.
The puppy would have been put down by gas. PWJ decided to adopt him and saved him from the killing machine, so-called"dream box".
This dog was named"Yumenosuke"that means dream in Japanese. PWJ entrusted him dream and hope.
PWJ trained Yumenosuke to become a rescue dog. At the beginning, he was scared and didn’t trust anyone. But his trainers did not give up. After months of training, he started trusting people. It was slow but he gradually started showing the good progress.
Yumenosuke took part in his first search-and-rescue mission in Hiroshima where was struck by landslides disaster following heavy rain. Yumenosuke joined emergency teams, with his colleague Hulk. Yumenosuke found a deceased victim.


After the Hiroshima landslides, Yumenosuke headed for the Phillipines in December 2014 prior to Typhoon Hagupit. In April 2015, he was in Nepal and engaged in search-and-rescue activities in areas affected by earthquake.