Bather rescued 80km from Japan beach after 36 hours

The woman, who was wearing a rubber ring, is reported to be dehydrated but fine otherwise.

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The Chinese national in her 20s, who was wearing a rubber ring, spent 36 hours in the water before being spotted by a cargo ship off a peninsula south of Tokyo.

A smaller vessel nearby was alerted and two of its crew jumped into the sea to rescue her, the AFP news agency reports.

Coast Guard helicopters then took the woman, who was dehydrated but conscious, to hospital, according to the Kyodo news agency.

Police were alerted on Monday evening when the woman, who has not been named, was reported missing after going swimming in Shizuoka Prefecture to the south-west of the capital.

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