Updated March 2026
List of Japanese Abductees Identified by Government of Japan and Missing Persons in which the Possibility of Abduction by North Korea Cannot Be Ruled Out
Official Records of Unrepatriated Missing Japanese Citizens (COMJAN & Family Association)
This registry contains documented cases of victims officially identified as abducted by the Government of Japan, as well as missing persons for whom the possibility of abduction by North Korea cannot be ruled out (investigated and announced by the National Police Agency and the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea – COMJAN), whose families have consented to the public release of their names.
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| No. | Date of Disappearance | Name | Sex | Age | Date of Birth | Area of Disappearance | Residence at the Time | Occupation | Abducting Country / Status |
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| 1 | around 7/1948 | KAZUMARU HIRAMOTO | M | 20 | 2/1/1928 | Kyushu Region | JPN | pelagic fishing company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Lived in Hamheung, Hamgyeongnam-do, Korea, before the war. After being repatriated to Japan, he worked on a trawler for Kyushu Taiyo Fishery until around 1948, when he started working at the head office of the company.Disappeared after July 1948 after staying for a few days at the home of a Korean-era friend living in Oita Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 2 | 2/9/ 1950 | TOSHIAKI HIRAMOTO | M | 21 | 19/6/1929 | Nakatsu City, Oita Pref. | Kure City,Hiroshima Pref | teacher | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was an primary schools teacher in Hiroshima Prefecture, but returned to his home in Oita Prefecture during the summer holidays and took his eldest daughter to a Bon Odori dance on 16 August. He left home the next morning saying he was going back to school, but disappeared after it was discovered that he had been staying at a friend's house in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, until September. He said he was looking for his brother, Kazumaru Hiramoto.No.1 | |||||||||
| 3 | 27/10/ 1952 | KOSUKE WATANABE | M | 20 | 18/1/1932 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared after leaving his lodgings in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto. | |||||||||
| 4 | 13/3/1953 | MASAO TERAUCHI | M | 24 | Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Pref. | Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He went missinng from the company dormitory in Fukuoka where he had been staying on a business trip. He spent his childhood in Tochigi Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 5 | 7/10/ 1953 | YOICHIRO TOKUNAGA | M | 18 | 14/1/1935 | Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Pref. | Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Pref. | dye shop clerk | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He worked as a delivery boy at a dye shop, but suddenly disappeared after being told of another job opportunity, 1996-1999 There was information from a defector that he had been seen inside North Korea and that his camp papers stated that he had come to Korea from Japan in 1954-1955. | |||||||||
| 6 | around 1954 Winter | SETSU ARAI | F | 18 | 12/1/1936 | Taito Ward, Tokyo | Utsunomiya City,Tochigi Pref | resident clerks | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]An acquaintance took her to Tokyo, where she lived in Sumida and then Taito wards. Worked as a live-in clerk, left on a winter evening in 1954 in azuki cardigan and clogs or sandals and never returned. Serious and fond of reading. Postcards were sent to her parents' house in Utsunomiya. | |||||||||
| 7 | 22/4/1954 | YOSHIYUKI KONISHI | M | 20 | 21/9/1933 | Anamizumachi, Ishikawa Pref. | Wajima City, Ishikawa Pref. | helping out at the family's inn | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Likes to read. On the day of his disappearance, he left home in a daze, wearing geta (Japanese clogs) and with nothing in his clothes. According to his neighbours, he took a train bound for Kanazawa from Wajima Station on the Nanao Line at around 7.30 am and got off at the third stop, Anamizu-cho. A maid heard him counting coins the night before. Thinking of his disabled brother. | |||||||||
| 8 | around 1954 Winter | CHIE NAGAYAMA | F | 20 | 1934 | Arakawa Ward,Tokyo | Arakawa Ward,Tokyo | domestic helper | North Korea Police |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around 1954, after being reprimanded by his older brother regarding his lifestyle, he left a letter stating “I'm leaving” at his family home in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo, and subsequently went missing. | |||||||||
| 9 | around 1954 | KOTOMI YAMAMOTO | F | 23 | Yodogawa Ward.Osaka Pref | Yodogawa Ward.Osaka Pref | typist | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After sending a letter to their family saying, “I'm going to visit a friend's house in Yamagata,” they went missing. | |||||||||
| 10 | 14/1/1955 | KANEYOSHI TOSHIMA | M | 19 | 25/12/1935 | Mima-cho, Tokushima Pref. | Mima-cho, Tokushima Pref. | high school dropout | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He got good grades but dropped out of high school because he could not afford the school fees. He left home saying he was going to see his younger brother who lives in Tokyo, but has not visited him.His 12-year-old sister remembers hearing the Korean radio from his room at night for many months, and how he had been troubled for a couple of months. | |||||||||
| 11 | 7/4/1955 | AKIO KINOSHITA | M | 18 | 8/10/1936 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | live-in noodle mill workers. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Friendly and cheerful personality. On 7 April 1955, he disappeared after leaving a note at the noodle factory in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, where he worked as a live-in worker, saying that he was going to visit his parents' house. One or two days before his disappearance, he visited his parents' home in Fushimi, Kyoto. | |||||||||
| 12 | 24/9/1955 | MASAJI NAKANO | M | 23 | 18/9/1932 | on the surface of east china sea | Saga Pref. | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On 24 September 1955, the 12th Tamaei Maru, with 12 people on board, including Mr Nakano, left Imari Port, Saga Prefecture. At about 4.30am, the vessel was lost in waters 30 miles south of Jeju Island. Wind speed was about 8m at the time. A crewmember ship went to search the area but found nothing. 18 months ago, the vessel was captured in South Korea in the same waters and detained for one year. | |||||||||
| 13 | 23/10/1955 | HIROYUKI HABU | M | 37 | 5/11/1917 | on the surface of ocean in Kagoshima Pref. | Yakushima Kagoshima Pref. | fishermen (half-farmers and half-fishermen) | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Six people, including relatives and people from outside the island, were loaded onto the owned 'Nanaha Maru' and headed for Kuchino-erabu Island from the mouth of the Kurio River on Yaku Island near their home, but did not return. Two of the missing persons came from Kochi to buy edible acorns. It was later discovered that they did not enter Kuchinoerabu Island. | |||||||||
| 14 | 21/1/1956 | HISAKO KANETO | F | 23 | Bibai City,Hokkaido | Bibai City,Hokkaido | teacher | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left their home in Bibai City saying they were “going to visit a friend's house in Asahikawa City” and have been missing ever since.、 | |||||||||
| 15 | 3/1956.. | KIKU UENO | F | 19 | Shinagawa Ward,Tokyo | Shinagawa Ward,Tokyo | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing after leaving lodgings in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo、 | |||||||||
| 16 | 18/3/1956 | SHIRO SAITO | M | 17 | 23/11/1938 | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | apprentice sheet metal worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]From spring 1954, he worked as a live-in sheet metal apprentice in Sapporo, Japan.On 18 March 1956, he went with company staff for a union training course, but he did not attend the course and did not return to the company. He cried under the duvet the night before, according to a colleague. | |||||||||
| 17 | around 1957-58 | OSAMU SAITO | M | 21 | 6/5/1936 | Minato Ward, Tokyo | Yamanashi Pref. | Power generation construction company accountant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In 1957, a letter was sent to his parents' home in Yamanashi Prefecture stating that he had bought a nationality in Hokkaido and was going abroad, after which he disappeared. | |||||||||
| 18 | 4/1957 | YUKIO TOMINAGA | M | 20 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Clothing Tailor | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing from lodgings in Osaka City, | |||||||||
| 19 | 30/6/1957 | NOBORU HOSOKAWA | M | 22 | Nanao City, Ishikawa Pref. | Nanao City, Ishikawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving his home in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, saying he was “going to work,” he went missing. | |||||||||
| 20 | around 8/1957 | SAKIKO OKAMURA | F | 21 | Iwakuni City,Yamaguchi Pref | Iwakuni City,Yamaguchi Pref | Live-in staff | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After telling the owner of the boarding workplace, “I'm going to see a movie,” the person went out and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 21 | around 8/1957 | MITSUYA KUBO | M | 24 | Koyaguti-cho,Wakayama Pref | Koyaguti-cho,Wakayama Pref | Agriculture (Former Self-Defense Forces Officer) | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]While family members living together went out to work in the fields from morning until evening, he went missing from his home in Koyaguchi-cho, Wakayama Pref. | |||||||||
| 22 | 11/5/1958 | HIDEKO MATSUNAGA | F | 21 | Kameda-mura Hokkaido(now Hakodate city) | Kameda-mura Hokkaido(now Hakodate city) | store clerk | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around noon on the day of her disappearance, she left her home in Kameda-mura, Hokkaido, saying she was “going shopping,” and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 23 | 28/5/1958 | KENICHI(commly colled TAKEYASU) NAKAMURA | M | 20 | 24/8/1937 | Nagasaki City Nagasaki Pref. | Nagasaki City Nagasaki Pref. | Working as a technician at Blueprint Industries. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At around 8am on the day of his disappearance, he went out to his lodgings, saying that he was going to Fukuoka to find a job, and then disappeared. His chest is thin and sunken down to his solar plexus. He had an appendectomy scar, small shoes, was a neat and tidy person and always kept a neat desk. | |||||||||
| 24 | 14/7/1958 | RYUJI SATO | M | 20 | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving his lodgings in Sapporo, Hokkaido, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 25 | 12/1958 | SHIGERU MURAYAMA | M | 24 | Taito Ward, Tokyo | Nigata Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After telling me, “I'm just going back to my parents' place (in Niigata),” he left his workplace in Tokyo and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 26 | around 1959 | KENKICHI INOMATA | M | 19 | Nerima Ward,Tokyo | Minamiaizu-cho Fukusima Pref | live-in employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing from a live-in residence in Nerima Ward, Tokyo | |||||||||
| 27 | 1/1959 | SUMIKO TOUCHI | F | 19 | Omuta City,Fukuoka Pref. | Omuta City,Fukuoka Pref. | domestic helper | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing since leaving home in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture | |||||||||
| 28 | 12/3/1959 | HIROMITSU MAE | M | 25 | Suginami Ward,Toyo | Suginami Ward,Toyo | factory worker | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing after leaving home in Tokyo | |||||||||
| 29 | 4/5/1959 | EMIKO ADACHI | F | 23 | 10/1/1936 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Shimane Pref. | practical nurse | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Born in Heungnam, Korea, lived in Dalian until the end of the war; repatriated in 1947. Lived at her aunt's house in Hirata, Shimane, and moved to Kyoto around 1955; on 4 May 1959, the day of a comfort trip to the hospital where she worked, she said she would not go. There is a record of her leaving the nurses' dormitory at 2pm. | |||||||||
| 30 | 1/7/1959 | HIIROYUKI TAKAHASHI | M | 22 | Chitose City,Hokkaido | Chitose City,Hokkaido | Former Self-Defense Forces member | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After being discharged from the Self-Defense Forces in Hokkaido, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 31 | after 1960 | SHIN FUJITA | M | 29 | 5/9/1931 | Ota Ward, Tokyo Pref. | Kamata Ota Ward, Tokyo Pref. | factory worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Susumu Fujita, uncle of No. 238. He borrowed new shoes from his eldest brother in the current year, consulted his second brother and his wife about who he wanted to marry, and came to borrow money from his brother. He has not been heard from since then. A few years after his disappearance, a New Year's card arrives at his brother and sister-in-law's house in Kawaguchi, Saitama. The sender's name was missing. The postmark is Setagaya. | |||||||||
| 32 | 27/2/1960 | KAORU KIMURA | F | 21 | 27/8/1938 | Akita City, Akita Pref. | Akita City, Akita Pref. | nursing student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At around 5.30pm on the day of her disappearance, she left the dormitory, saying she was going out for a while and did not return. She was carrying her didactic "Nursing Essentials". There are multiple eyewitness accounts from North Korea. A female Japanese language teacher who studied at Pyongyang University of Foreign Languages, whom Kim Hyon-Hui describes in her book, may be a possible match. | |||||||||
| 33 | around 5/ 1960 | MASANOBU TAMURA | M | 23 | 27/8/1936 | Tateyama City, Chiba Pref. | Yokohama City,Kanagawa Pref. | Office Worker (Former Self-Defence Force officer). |
North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was working for a company in Yokohama, but stayed at his uncle's house to change jobs at a major fisheries company in Tateyama, went for an interview at the company and disappeared. He said that he had undergone very hard physical training during his time in the Self-Defence Forces. | |||||||||
| 34 | around 6/1960 | KIYOSHI TOYOTA | M | 24 | Nagasaki City,Nagasaki Pref | Nagasaki City,Nagasaki Pref | barber | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Resided in Nagasaki City, but has been missing since June 1960. | |||||||||
| 35 | 19/6/1960 | TAIRA YAMASHITA （IIZUKA） | M | 25 | 18/5/1935 | Edogawa Ward, Tokyo | Edogawa Ward, Tokyo | Metalworking company live-in employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At around 10am on the day of his disappearance, he said he was going to the Yatsu Rose Garden in Narashino, Chiba, and went out and disappeared; adopted in 1959 and took the surname 'Iizuka', but returned to the family register after his disappearance and returned to the surname 'Yamashita'. | |||||||||
| 36 | 3/7/1960 | TOSHIKAZU TATSUMI | M | 16 | 15/8/1943 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Technical high school students (mechanical engineering) | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At noon on the day of his disappearance, he went missing after leaving his home in Osaka in his school uniform to go to a high school film screening in Umeda. He was not seen at the cinema. He was wondering what he was going to use to get to Kyobashi, but his sister suggested the bus. He only had about his wallet with him. | |||||||||
| 37 | 21/9/1960 | YASUO MIYAZAWA | M | 19 | 20/10/1942 | Taito Ward, Tokyo | Nigata Pref. | Regular high school students Residential workers in a baking company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At the time, he was a student in the regular course of a regular high school while helping to live in the dormitory of a baking company in Tokyo. Although unconfirmed, there are several eyewitnesses who say they saw someone similar in North Korea. Abductions are highly likely. | |||||||||
| 38 | 11/1960 | MAKIKO NORIMATSU | F | 23 | Wakayama Pref. | Urawa City,Saitama Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After being sighted at Cape Shionomisaki in Kushimoto Town, Wakayama Prefecture, it went missing. | |||||||||
| 39 | 3/11/1960 | TAKAO OZAKI | M | 27 | 23/4/1933 | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Worked for a tie manufacturing company (accountant) | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he left his home in Kobe City, saying he was going out with his camera to "have fun" and did not return. The next day he was informed by his company that he was absent from work. | |||||||||
| 40 | After autumn 1961 | CHIYOKO SAKAKIBARA | F | 18 | Tokyo station | Okazaki City,Aichi Pref | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After parting ways with my brother, who lived in Tokyo, at Tokyo Station, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 41 | 4/1961 | TAKANORI TAKADA | M | 19 | Sakai City, Osaka Pref. | Sakai City, Osaka Pref. | unemproyed | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing after leaving home in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 42 | 4/1961 | MINORU NAITO | M | 22 | Nigata City, Nigata Pref. | Nigata City, Nigata Pref. | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving a restaurant in Niigata City, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 43 | 1/7/1961 | YUKIO NOZAKI | M | 26 | 16/10/1934 | Shimokawa-Cyo, Hokkaido | Shimokawa-Cyo, Hokkaido | Worked in the fire service | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Has car maintenance skills. Missing after blowing the noon siren at the fire brigade headquarters on the day of disappearance; searched for three days and then searched the forests, rivers and railways with his own people, but no sign of him. | |||||||||
| 44 | 7/1961 | SADAKO ABE | F | 24 | Ichinomiya City,Aichi pref | Nigata Pref. | spinner | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing from workplace in Aichi Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 45 | 10/8/1961 | SHIGEHISA TAKAGI | M | 21 | 3/3/1940 | Obama City, Fukui Pref. | Osaka Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]There was a beach in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, where he often went with a female friend, and he said he was going to play with her and left his home in Osaka with no particular amount of money or possessions in a car owned by his father, but he and the woman went missing. The car has not been found. | |||||||||
| 46 | 24/9/1961 | RETSUKO MASAKI | F | 18 | 23/12/1942 | Tokushima,City Tokushima Pref. | Kａｇａｗａ Ｐｒｅｆ． | nurse | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared in September of the same year after leaving her home, telling her family that she had found a good job in Osaka. She was last seen by a taxi driver at Bizan Park on 24 September. She was last seen by a friend at a bar in Hiketa-cho, Kagawa Prefecture, the night before. There is unconfirmed information that a woman similar to her was seen in China. | |||||||||
| 47 | 7/9/1961 | HIDETSUNE FUNAKOSHI | M | 20 | Ichikawa City,Chiba Pref. | Ichikawa City,Chiba Pref. | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving his lodgings saying he was going to a friend's house in Ota Ward, Tokyo, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 48 | 1/11/1961 | YASUHARU TAKAMATSU | M | 20 | 23/3/1941 | Kamakura City, Kanagawa Pref. | Kamakura City, Kanagawa Pref. | Office Worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In the evening of the day after receiving his resignation at the head office and entering the dormitory in Kamakura, he went for a walk with two colleagues to Zaimokuza beach and disappeared. At the beginning of the same year, a person was seen jumping into the sea and landing from a boat at around 9pm, which was published in the December 1961 issue of the Weekly Yomiuri. Article together with a missing student from the same period. | |||||||||
| 49 | 1/10/1961 | SHOJI SAITO | M | 22 | 10/7/1939 | Zushi City, Kanagawa Pref | Zushi City, Kanagawa Pref | Regular high school students Part-time job | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He works part-time at the Ministry of Transport's Institute of Technology at the Bay. At the time of his disappearance, a classmate informed the petrol station where his brother worked that he was not coming to school. After graduating from junior high school, he worked in a bakery for about three years, and after retiring, he moved to his aunt's house (Yasoura-cho, Yokosuka) and further moved to Zushi City. | |||||||||
| 50 | 20/12/1961 | TORAO ＩＷＡＳＡ | M | 35 | 8/12/1926 | Kamakura City, Kanagawa Pref. | Kamakura City, Kanagawa Pref. | Residential work in a fishmonger's shop | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was no longer silenced by the fishmonger in Zaimokuza, Kamakura, where he lived and worked. He participated twice in the national track and field short-distance competition. Disappeared in the same area a little over a month after No48 Yasuharu Takamatsu. | |||||||||
| 51 | 26/2/1961 | HAJIME NAKAYA | M | 28 | Asibetsu City,Hokkaido | Asibetsu City,Hokkaido | civil servant | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around 4:00 PM on the day of disappearance, he left his home in Ashibetsu City, Hokkaido, telling his family, “I'm going to Sapporo tomorrow,” and has been missing since. | |||||||||
| 52 | 1/1962 either | HI-SUNG (EIKO) KIM (KANEMURA) (YAMADA) |
F | 19 | 2/10/1942 | Nigata or Toyama Pref. | Cyuo Ward,Koube City,Hyougo Pref. | vocational school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She was also known as Eiko Kanamura and Eiko Yamada. In January of the year of her disappearance, she ran away from home in Kobe City with two friends and went to Niigata or Toyama. There, someone asked them if they wanted to go with him because he had a good job, and they returned, but only he went with them. He has run away from home once in the past. There were silent phone calls within a year or two of his disappearance. | |||||||||
| 53 | around 4/1962 | TERUKO KASE | F | 17 | 4/5/1944 | Unakami-machi, Chiba Pref. | Unakami-machi, Chiba Pref. | domestic helper | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing after leaving her home in the afternoon at the time of her disappearance and going out to a perm shop in front of the nearest Iioka station; in 2004 a photo taken by a defector was forensically identified as "very likely to be her"; in 2017 the government announced that the photo was of a different person, but details were not available. | |||||||||
| 54 | around 9/1962 | YOSHIKAZU NINOMIYA | M | 24 | 15/1/1938 | Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo | Ehime Pref. | Vocational school student Works for an electrical company by day | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]When he disappeared, he left a note at his lodgings in Shinagawa saying that he was going to Lake Towadako (or the mountains) to cool off a bit. On the same day, a call came from the Shinagawa JNR station to his lodgings saying he had left his second bag behind; a month later, a call came to his parents' home in Ehime saying he had not returned. | |||||||||
| 55 | around 8/1962 | KATAMU SEKINE | M | 21 | Nagoya CITY, Aichi Pref. | Nagoya CITY, Aichi Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Residing in Nagoya City. Could not be contacted since around August.。 | |||||||||
| 56 | 27/10/1962 | KAZUKO NISHIZAKI | F | 15 | Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Pref. | Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Pref. | Junior high school student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]An unknown man visited a residence in Moji Ward, Kitakyushu City, took the person away right in front of others, and they have been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 57 | 6/12/1962 | SEIKO INOUE | F | 18 | 11/1/1944 | Kita Ward, Tokyo | Hiroshima Pref. | Apprenticeship as a dressmaker Attended dressmaking school | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At the time of her disappearance, she was on her way to school for tailoring in Kita-ku, Tokyo, and was missing after delivering tailoring to a client's house. She was not attending school. | |||||||||
| 58 | around late 1963 | KIMIO SAKASHITA | M | 30 | 9/2/1933 | Nanao City, Ishikawa Pref. | Nanao City, Ishikawa Pref. | Dry goods store business | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At the time of his disappearance, he was making a delivery for his relative's dry goods business in Nanao, Ishikawa, and disappeared without leaving the premises. His bicycle is also unknown. Formerly in the Ground Self-Defence Force in Kanazawa. | |||||||||
| 59 | around 3/1963 | TOMIO KATO | M | 20 | Itabashi Ward,Tokyo | Itabashi Ward,Tokyo | Part-time employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Resided in Tokyo, but around the time of the disappearance, contact with family ceased and the person went missing. | |||||||||
| 60 | around 5/1963 | MASAHIRO TERADA | M | 19 | 8/2/1933 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared after resigning from the company he worked for in Osaka. | |||||||||
| 61 | 11/5/1963 | SHOJI TERAKOSHI | M | 36 | 31/3/1927 | on the surface of ocean of Takahama-cho(now Shiga-cho) Ishikawa Pref. | Takahama-cho(now Shiga-cho) Ishikawa Pref. | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At the time of disappearance, the vessel left Takahama fishing port, rested once at Fukuura fishing port, and then headed for the fishing grounds before dawn on 12 December, when it went missing. The next day, the fishing boat was found drifting 7km offshore. The fishing boat had scars as if it had been hit and paint that was not found in Japan.In 1987, his brother Sotoo(No62), who was in distress with him, wrote to his sister that he was living in Pyongyang, North Korea. Former North Korean agent An Myongjin was told by his instructor that Shoji was shot dead with a pistol and drowned at sea because he was seen entering Japan. | |||||||||
| 62 | 11/5/1963 | SOTOO TERAKOSHI | M | 24 | 7/2/1939 | on the surface of ocean of Takahama-cho(now Shiga-cho) Ishikawa Pref. | Takahama-cho(now Shiga-cho) Ishikawa Pref. | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared after setting sail on a fishing boat with Shoji Terakoshi(No61) and Takeshi(No63), but it was later discovered that Sotoo and Takeshi have been living in North Korea. Sotoo is believed to have died in 1994 in Gumi-song, North Korea. | |||||||||
| 63 | 11/5/1963 | TAKESHI TERAKOSHI | M | 13 | 21/9/1949 | on the surface of ocean of Takahama-cho(now Shiga-cho) Ishikawa Pref. | Takahama-cho(now Shiga-cho) Ishikawa Pref. | junior high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared after setting sail on a fishing boat with Shoji(No61) and Sotoo(No62), but was later found living in North Korea, where he went by the name Kim Yong-ho and visited Japan in 2002 as deputy head of a delegation of Korean Workers' Party members and labour organisations. Despite the obvious abduction, Japan has not recognised the abduction, partly due to the wishes of the mother, Tomoe, who was told that her son was rescued by North Korea and is effectively being held hostage. | |||||||||
| 64 | around early 6/1963 | TAICHI TAKAHASHI | M | 21 | 21/11/1941 | Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Pref. | Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In the year of his disappearance, his parents received a postcard from the landlord of a boarding house in Kawasaki, saying that he had not returned to the boarding house since early June. He had left his personal belongings in the room of the lodgings, as well as his driver's licence, chief dangerous objects handler's licence and personal seal. A former Self-Defence Force officer, he served in Hokkaido and Aomori. | |||||||||
| 65 | 16/6/1963 | MASATOSHI INOZUME(YASUDA) | M | 3 | Mori-mati,Hokkaido | Mori-mati,Hokkaido | toddler | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Last seen around 12:40 p.m. on the day of disappearance at the Morimachi Elementary School athletic meet held at the park grounds in Morimachi, Hokkaido. Has been missing since. | |||||||||
| 66 | 16/6/1963 | SETSUKO NAKATSUKA | F | 18 | 5/6/1945 | Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo | Nagano Pref. | Worked for a printing company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of her disappearance, She left her job at a printing company in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, and went out of the dormitory with a colleague six years older than her, wearing sandals and carrying small change, saying she was going out for a while and did not return together.She had been living for nearly two months near the company and dormitory of Nobuo Hidaka(No105), He disappeared in 1967. | |||||||||
| 67 | 10/8/1963 | MINORU UCHIYAMA | M | 23 | Muroran City,Hokkaido | Muroran City,Hokkaido | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the evening of the disappearance, he left his home in Muroran City, Hokkaido, by bicycle, stating he was “going to Chuo-cho,” and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 68 | 20/9/1963 | YOKO MORI | F | 19 | 15/5/1944 | Hakodate City, Hokkaido | Hakodate City, Hokkaido | General shop assistant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]The day before she disappeared, she stayed at a friend's house in Hakodate, and on the day she went shopping and climbed Mount Hakodate with another friend. After killing time with a friend at a coffee shop and going to the bus stop to catch the bus, she said she would stay at the friend's house where she had stayed the day before and parted ways with her friend, after which she went missing. | |||||||||
| 69 | 6/12/1963 | KUNISADA MAKINO | M | 19 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Company employee (transportation industry) | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around 6:30 p.m. on the day of disappearance, after finishing a delivery job in Osaka City, he left his car abandoned on a road within the city and went missing. | |||||||||
| 70 | 26/1/1964 | KEIKO NAKASHIMA | F | 20 | 21/2/1943 | Toyama Pref. | Takaoka City,Toyama Pref. | Worked for Hokuriku Electric Power Company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She disappeared while leaving her home in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, saying she was going to visit a friend. Her mother's diary states that she was wearing "a yellow jumper, a grey skirt and overs. She had little money in her possession and did not take a change of clothes with her, which does not seem to have been planned". She was engaged to be married. | |||||||||
| 71 | 4/6/1964 | MASAKAZU BABA | M | 19 | 13/12/1944 | Hino Citｙ、Tokyo | Hino Citｙ、Tokyo | University student (mechanical engineering) | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the morning of the day of his disappearance, he met his parents at their home in Hino, Tokyo, but did not return home that day. He did not take any money or clothing with him. It is thought that he had prepared the drawings and other materials for use at university and had no intention of quitting university. He told his sister that he had a good part-time job in Shinjuku. | |||||||||
| 72 | 10/1964 | HIDEO SUGAHARA | M | 21 | Higashiosaka City, Osaka pref | Higashiosaka City, Osaka pref | Transportation industry | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Higashiosaka City, Osaka Prefecture and is missing | |||||||||
| 73 | 25/10/1964 | KUMIKO HASEGAWA | F | 23 | Kama City,Fukuoka Pref. | Kama City,Fukuoka Pref. | Food service workers | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After telling her mother she was “going to Osaka with friends,” she left her home in Yamada City, Fukuoka Prefecture (now Kama City) and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 74 | 25/8/1964 | SUSUMU NAGATA | M | 21 | 13/2/1943 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Ishikawa Pref. | working in a company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he went missing from his company's dormitory, saying he was going to a nearby public bath. After his disappearance, his family found a letter from his pen-friend, a woman from the Kansai region, in which he wrote about his situation, but received no reply. He was from Ishikawa Prefecture and worked for a company in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka. | |||||||||
| 75 | 4/1964 | MASAKO UMEDA | F | 22 | Higashiosaka City, Osaka pref | Toriya Cho,Ishikawa Pref.(now Nakanoto Cho) | Dental Assistant | North Korea Police,COMJAN |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left belongings behind in Higashiosaka City, Osaka Prefecture, where I was living at the time, and went missing.The person’s belongings were sent from their workplace, a dental clinic, to their parents’ home in Ishikawa Prefecture, and their family confirmed that they had gone missing. | |||||||||
| 76 | 3/1/1965 | JYUNYA MIZUKAMI | M | 28 | Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Pref. | Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Pref. | Ironworks worker | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Fukuoka City to visit relatives in Koga City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 77 | 18/1/1965 | SHIGEO YONEKAWA | M | 22 | 14/7/1942 | Chuo Ward, Tokyo | Chuo Ward, Tokyo | Worked for father's company Automobile dealership | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he went out to assess a car trade-in from a company run by his father in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, at around 4.30 p.m. He called the company to say he was on his way home, but did not return. 3-4 days later, his car was found by the river near a cancer centre in Tsukiji. No contact after that. | |||||||||
| 78 | 3/3/1965 | MIYOSHI YAMAGUCHI | M | 26 | 1/3/1939 | Osaka Pref. | Osaka Pref. | employee of a national railway company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]A colleague was killed in an accident and, due to the shock of seeing the scene, he said he did not want to go to work for JNR and that he would start another job. Late the night before his disappearance, he visited his brother's house in Osaka City with the person who had introduced him to the job. His brother objected, and when they visited his lodgings in Moriguchi the next morning, they found his belongings packed and gone. | |||||||||
| 79 | 26/2/1965 | SUSUMU FUJITA | M | 16 | 25/3/1948 | Aomi-cho, Nigata Pref. | Aomi-cho, Nigata Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he went to a concert of the mandolin club of Meiji University at a cinema 15 minutes from his home in Aomi-machi (now Itoigawa City), Niigata Prefecture, and five minutes from the coast, and disappeared without leaving. Wore an anorak over his school uniform in a heavy snowstorm; different from Susumu Fujita(No236)who disappeared from Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, in 1976. | |||||||||
| 80 | 10/4/1965 | KATSUYOSHI KOMARU | M | 22 | 24/12/1942 | Tokyo or Kyoto Pref. | Sakai City,Oosaka Pref. | Shipbuilding company training completed | North Korea Police |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After graduating from university in Osaka, he was offered a job at a shipbuilding company, completed his training at the Tokyo head office and received a ticket to Maizuru,Kyoto pref, where he was posted, and has been missing ever since. It is not known whether he took the train or not. Born Hiroshima, resident in Osaka. | |||||||||
| 81 | around 5/1965 | SHIKUYA IWABICHI | M | 22 | shimizu City,Shizuoka Pref. | shimizu City,Shizuoka Pref. | company emproyee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture (now Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City) saying he was “going fishing” and went missing. | |||||||||
| 82 | 25/5/1965 | NOBUO YOSHIDA | M | 29 | 30/8/1935 | Saporo City, Hokkaido | Otaru City, Hokkaido | Worked for a paper manufacturing company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he was missing after finishing his shift at the Teine Plant in Sapporo. He was transferred from Otaru to Sapporo in April of the same year. It is possible that he stopped by the Otaru plant as he commuted by train. | |||||||||
| 83 | 8/6/1965 | AKIKO TANEHASHI | F | 21 | 23/8/1943 | Asaka City, Saitama Pref. | Asaka City, Saitama Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She went to Fukushima Prefecture for a time as an adopted daughter, but was reinstated. On the day of her disappearance, she left her home in Asaka City, Saitama Prefecture, saying to her mother that she would return to her former adopted home and did not return, and when it was discovered that she had not been to her former adopted home, her mother filed a missing persons report at Asaka Police Station. | |||||||||
| 84 | 9/6/1965 | TOSHIKO SAKAMOTO | F | 22 | 22/11/1942 | Kita Ward, Tokyo | Kita Ward, Tokyo | Bathhouse help at parents' home | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of her disappearance, she left her home in Kita-ku, Tokyo, saying she was going to a knitting class and disappeared; she was helping out at two public bathhouses. It was an arranged marriage, and the couple were expecting to get married in the autumn. A deported woman testified that she thought she had seen her at the University of Political Science in 1993, although she was not sure. | |||||||||
| 85 | 2/7/1965 | JINZABURO MARUHASHI | M | 56 | Asahikawa City, Hokkaido | Asahikawa City, Hokkaido | Unemployed (Former Teacher) | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After conversing with family members in Asahikawa City, Hokkaido, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 86 | around 8/1965 | MOTOE OKA | F | 19 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | company emproyee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Osaka City and is now missing | |||||||||
| 87 | 8/1965 | YASUO KAMATA | M | 36 | Osaka Pref. | Musashino City,Tokyo | unknown | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Last seen visiting relatives in Osaka | |||||||||
| 88 | early 8/1965 | TOSHIHARU NISHIJIMA | M | 24 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | carpenter | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Osaka City and is now missing | |||||||||
| 89 | around 8/1965 | KISE YAMAGATA | F | 22 | 13/9/1943 | Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Pref. | Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Pref. | Apprenticeship in Japanese dressmaking | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After graduating from junior high school, she was a live-in apprentice at a Japanese dressmaking school in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. In March of the year of her disappearance, her mother moved to Tokyo and they toured Tokyo together; in August they took a photograph together, but have not been heard from since. There is a photograph in front of the residence, which appears to have been taken in the summer. | |||||||||
| 90 | 26/8/1965 | TATSUO TERAMOTO | M | 25 | Asahikawa City, Hokkaido | Asahikawa City, Hokkaido | employee of a national railway company | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Went missing after leaving his home in Asahikawa City with an acquaintance. | |||||||||
| 91 | around 10/1965 | KAME NISHIHIRA (OTA) | F | 37 | 20/4/1928 | Obihiro City, Hokkaido | Obihiro City, Hokkaido | house wife | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At the time of her disappearance, she was in a fight with her common-law husband and disappeared one morning from her home in Obihiro, Hokkaido. Her household goods and clothes were untouched and she was left in the house with no clothes on. She also left her child, an infant of about two years old, with her common-law husband. She has not been heard from since. Her family name is "Ota Kame" in the family register. | |||||||||
| 92 | around 28/10/1965 | KANMORI ASHITOMI | M | 21 | Ginowan City,Okinawa Pref. | Ginowan City,Okinawa Pref. | Printing Company Management | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing in Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture | |||||||||
| 93 | 31/3/1966 | YOSHIAKI MARUYAMA | M | 22 | 9/8/1943 | Mikuni-cho(now Sakai City), Fukui Pref. | Kaga City,Ishikawa Pref. | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he left his lodgings in Mikuni-cho with a message that he was going to his parents' house in Kaga and disappeared. The day of the disappearance was the last payday of the month and the ship was not supposed to sail. Three men with a Tohoku accent came and went. | |||||||||
| 94 | early 5/1966 | HIDEKO TAKAMATSU | F | 20 | Ichikawa City,Chiba Pref. | Shiobara City,Tochigi Pref. | clothing store clerk | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around early May of the year of her disappearance, she was living with her cousin and cousin's spouse in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. She left home saying, “I'm going on a trip with friends,” and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 95 | around 5/1966 | TOSHINAO TSUMAGARI | M | 24 | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After quitting a company in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 96 | 11/7/1966 | MASAKI YAMAMOTO | M | 29 | 1/6/1937 | Hiraoka City, Osaka Pref. | Hiraoka City, Osaka Pref. | Worked for a real estate company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Two days after his disappearance, his family went to his home in Hiraoka City (now Higashi Osaka City), Osaka, and found a note saying: 'I'm going to visit a friend for a few days. If anyone visits me, please tell them I'm missing". A neighbour said he saw him leave two days ago with a suitcase. He did not attend the traffic accident trial. | |||||||||
| 97 | 21/8/1966 | SAKAE KOBAYASHI | M | 23 | 29/4/1943 | Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo | Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo | Worked for a printing company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he became ill and took a leave of absence from the printing company where he worked as a live-in employee. He told the people at the company that he was going to see a doctor and went out and disappeared. He was active and ran marathons in the athletics club in secondary school. He said he was joining a gym to box. | |||||||||
| 98 | 30/9/1966 | TOMEYOSHI MIYAWAKI | M | 27 | 15/3/1939 | Hikari City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Hikari City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Worked for a steel manufacturer Licensed to drive hoist equipment | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]A postcard postmarked in Kyoto on the day of his disappearance, saying that he would give his TV and other furniture to his roommate at his dormitory in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture. At the end of December the same year, when his mother and second son visited the company and the dormitory, they were told that he had suddenly disappeared. They have not touched their wages, company deposits, etc. | |||||||||
| 99 | around 1967-1968 | CHIEKO MARUYAMA | F | 40~41 | Spporo City,Hokkaido | Spporo City,Hokkaido | Docter | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing from their home in Sapporo, Hokkaido | |||||||||
| 100 | 9/1/1967 | TETSUKO SOBU | F | 24 | 3/8/1942 | Obihiro City, Hokkaido | Obihiro City, Hokkaido | domestic helper | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of her disappearance, she was at her home in Obihiro City when her brother went home briefly at around 6pm, but he then went to work and when he returned home at around 9pm, she was gone. On the day of disappearance, there was a snowstorm. Silent phone calls were made to the family home for the next two years. | |||||||||
▼ Missing Persons Registry No.101 – 200 Toggle
| No. | Date of Disappearance | Name | Sex | Age | Date of Birth | Area of Disappearance | Residence at the Time | Occupation | Abducting Country / Status |
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| 101 | 28/1/1967 | YUKIE YOSHIDA | F | 17 | 18/2/1949 | Kushiro City, Hokkaido | Kushiro City,Hokkaido | telephone operator | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left home between 8.30pm and 9pm to see a work colleague off on her The colleague had changed her departure to the following day. | |||||||||
| 103 | 21/4/1967 | EIKO SHIROSAKI | F | 20 | 20/7/1946 | Iwanai-cho, Hokkaido | Kyowa-cho,Hokkaido | domestic help | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left by bus at 8 or 9 a.m., telling her mother she was going to buy some clothes. Around 12 p.m., shoes, bags, clothes and souvenir cakes were found on the breakwater at Iwanai Harbour. There were no bodies on the seabed nearby. | |||||||||
| 104 | 8/5/1967 | HIROSHI YAMAZAKI | M | 23 | 8/3/1944 | Shibetu-cho, Hokkaido | Shibetu-cho, Hokkaido | agriculture | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He said he was going out to play and went out on his bicycle. The bicycle was found at an acquaintance's house just off the national road, and an all-out search was conducted for two days. After dark on the day, an unknown car made a U-turn at the entrance to the house. | |||||||||
| 105 | 29/9/1966 | NOBUO HIDAKA | M | 23 | 27/11/1944 | Taito Ward, Tokyo | Kａｇｏｓｈｉｍａ Pref. | Worked at a printing company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing second joint of right index finger and first joint of middle finger. Missing since her colleague dropped his off at Tokyo station when he changed jobs from a printing company in Shinjuku to a company in Osaka; Setsuko Nakatsuka's printing company was the nearest one to his disappearance in 1963. A defector testified that she resembles someone he met in a hospital in Pyongyang in 2006. | |||||||||
| 106 | 10/10/1967 | SEIJI KIMURA | M | 23 | Kushiro City,Hokkaido | JPN | National Public Servant | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while returning to the dormitory in Kushiro City from my parents' home. | |||||||||
| 107 | 23/10/1967 | YUKO OKADA | F | 14 | 27/3/1953 | Tokoro-cho, Hokkaido | Saroma-cho, Hokkaido | junior high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She practised Japanese dance. She was absent from school that day. There is an eye-witness account at Tokoro Station, a 20-minute train ride from Hamasaroma Station on the YUmou Line (now closed). A cardigan was found on the beach near Tokoro Station. | |||||||||
| 108 | 7/11/1967 | KEIGORO KAMIYA | M | 55 | 5/3/1912 | on the surface of ocean Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Departed with three sons from the north shore port of Motoinepu at about 6am to fish with a squid trawler. Witnesses reported that they were surrounded by three vessels. The vessel's hull was found on the seabed but failed to be salvaged. The bodies of the four crew members were never found. Someone told the family that the vessel had 'capsized' when no one knew of the disaster. | |||||||||
| 109 | 7/11/1967 | KEIGO KAMIYA | M | 26 | 20/3/1941 | on the surface of ocean Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Eldest son of Keigoro Kamiya No 108. | |||||||||
| 110 | 7/11/1967 | NORIHITO KAMIYA | M | 19 | 11/4/1948 | on the surface of ocean Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Second son of Keigoro Kamiya No 108. | |||||||||
| 111 | 7/11/1967 | HAYAMI KAMIYA | M | 16 | 9/1/1951 | on the surface of ocean Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | Omu-Cho, Hokkkaido | fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Third son of Keigoro Kamiya No 108. | |||||||||
| 112 | 20/11/1967 | HIDEAKI SAKAMOTO | Ｍ | 32 | 15/11/1935 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left the company's dormitory in the West Ward, saying he was going to renew his driving licence. His licence was not renewed. | |||||||||
| 113 | 12/1967 | MASAKO ASAO | F | 20 | Kurashiki City,Okayama Pref. | Kurashiki City,Okayama Pref. | Wanderer student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]While all the relatives were gathered for the memorial service, she went missing. | |||||||||
| 114 | 12/1967 | NORIKO TAKEDA | F | 21 | Ashikaga City,Tochigi Pref. | Jyoetsu City,Nigata Pref | housekeeper | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After getting off a taxi at Ashikaga Station in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, she went missing | |||||||||
| 115 | 1968 | HARUO TSUJIMOTO | M | 22 | Izumiotsu City,Osaka Pref. | Izumiotsu City,Osaka Pref. | Former company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Resigned from their workplace and subsequently disappeared. | |||||||||
| 116 | 15/1/1968 | SHINOBU YAGI | F | 19 | 27/1/1948 | Nyuzen-cho, Toyama Pref. | Nyuzen-cho, Toyama Pref. | Beauty Salon Intern | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Knitted hats and socks for aunt's twin babies. on the same day. Last seen heading to the nearest bus stop at around 6.30am in heavy snow. Money, luggage and driving licence remained at home. | |||||||||
| 117 | 12/1/1968 | TERUO SENBA | M | 38 | Nihama City,Ehime Pref. | Nihama City,Ehime Pref. | Factory Worker | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 118 | 9/2/1968 | SHINICHI MIZUSHIMA | M | 18 | 24/4/1949 | Asahi-cho, Toyama Pref. | Asahi-cho, Toyama Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the last day of the final semester examinations, he came home around noon and told his father he was going to swing a bat on the beach from his house, a five-minute walk away. When he did not return until after 5pm, his father and sister went to the beach and found the bat lying in the surf. It was a calm day. He had been offered a job at a seafood company. | |||||||||
| 119 | 30/3/1968 | TOSHITAKE MORI | M | 23 | Nerima Ward, Tokyo | Nerima Ward, Tokyo | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left belongings at the boarding house and went missing | |||||||||
| 120 | around 4/ 1968 | KATSUO HAYASAKA | M | 24 | 22/1/1944 | Sumida Ward, Tokyo | Sumida Ward, Tokyo | Worked at a printing company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]During the New Year holidays that same year, while staying at his brother's house in Matsudo City, Chiba Pref, he said, “I feel like someone is following me.”Later, while working in February or March, I suffered an injury severe enough to deform my thumb and index finger, requiring hospitalization.He appears to have disappeared from his lodgings in Sumida Ward, Tokyo around April. Several months later, a friend contacted his family asking them to collect his belongings, which is how they learned of his disappearance.. | |||||||||
| 121 | 5/1968 | KENJI NAKANO | M | 18 | Nougata City,Fukuoka Pref. | Nougata City,Fukuoka Pref. | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left a letter at home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 122 | 20/6/1968 | MAMORU KOGA | M | 19 | Kubota-cho,Saga Pref. | Kubota-cho,Saga Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 123 | 21/7/1968 | YUKIO KOTANI | M | 21 | 13/2/1947 | Yamagata Pref. | Tokyo | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Two days before his disappearance, he left his lodgings in Tokyo for his parents' home. While traveling back to his family home in Hokkaido, he apparently climbed Mt. Iide in Yamagata Prefecture, but then went missing.. | |||||||||
| 124 | 8/1968 | KEIKO SOGA | F | 18 | Nigata City,NigataPref. | Nigata City,NigataPref. | Restaurant staff | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 125 | 1/12/1968 | HIROSHI SAITO | M | 18 | 17/9/1950 | Wakkanai City, Hokkaido | Wakkanai City, Hokkaido | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home, saying he was going to visit a friend's house 4km from his home. Temperature 8°C, turtleneck jumper, student trousers. So there is a paradise on earth. He told his friend. He was working part-time at a pachinko parlour; Kwon Hyuk, who defected in 1999, has eyewitness testimony from 1978-79; Kim Kuk-seok, who defected in 2000, has eyewitness testimony from 1990-92. | |||||||||
| 126 | 12/12/1968 | ERIKO KUNII | F | 17 | 11/10/1951 | Abashiri City, Hokkaido | Abashiri City, Hokkaido | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of her disappearance, she disappeared, saying that she had to go to school early because she had exams. A few days after his disappearance, there were several silent phone calls to her home and to her relatives. A forensic scientist judged a photograph in the defector's possession to be "consistent with the person in question". | |||||||||
| 127 | 4/1/1969 | HIROSHI AKIMOTO | M | 23 | Chiba City,Chiba Pref. | Chiba City,Chiba Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 128 | 20/1/1969 | NORIO MAKIZONO | M | 21 | Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Pref. | Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Pref. | factory worker | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the workplace | |||||||||
| 129 | 15/2/1969 | KEIKO BECCHAKU | F | 27 | 1/8/1941 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Kounan-city Kochi Pref. | Working at resuturant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She disappeared after calling her parents' home on the day of her disappearance to say that she was going home. The child had stayed at home with her parents. Letter sent to brother in Hokkaido requesting payment of rent and sewing machine. | |||||||||
| 130 | 19/2/1969 | ETSUO KITASHOJI | M | 26 | 5/12/1952 | Kisiwada City,Osaka Pref. | Kisiwada City,Osaka Pref. | Commune staff member | North Korea Police |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 131 | 2/3/1969 | YUTAKA IMAI | M | 18 | 20/12/1950 | Hirosaki City, Aomori Pref. | Hirosaki City, Aomori Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He had been offered a job and enrolment at a night college in Tokyo. He was scheduled to read his speech at the graduation ceremony two days later. He disappeared when he went out to buy buttons for his school uniform, and burned some papers a few days ago. 50 years later, a student diary left behind reveals a map, not in his handwriting, of a beach in Henashi, Fukaura town. According to her mother's diary, on 2 October 1993, at around 9.30 am, she received a phone call saying that she was returning Yutaka to her home. | |||||||||
| 132 | around3/1969 | FUMIKO HASEGAWA | F | 17 | 22/2/1952 | Bibai City, Hokkaido | Bibai City, Hokkaido | Graduated from Nursing School | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Witnessed getting off the bus on the way home from school, but disappeared. No footsteps from bus stop to home. Leaves nursing licence and money at home. | |||||||||
| 133 | around 6/1969 | KIYOSHI KATAOKA | M | 30 | Soka City,Saitama Pref. | Murakami City,Nigata Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing in Soka City, Saitama Prefecture | |||||||||
| 134 | 16/7/1969 | HIDETOSHI SHIROTORI | M | 19 | 27/10/1949 | Matsumoto City, Nagano Pref. | Matsumoto City, Nagano Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while the landlord of his lodgings was in hospital. A postcard to his parents' house states that he returned on 30 June in the evening; an eyewitness report was made in the university library in July 16. Dishes were left in the lodger's room after meals without being washed. | |||||||||
| 135 | 27/7/1969 | MASAYUKI OYASHIKI | M | 16 | 5/12/1952 | Numazu City, Shizuoka Pref. | Edogawa ward,Tokyo | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Went swimming with four or five friends by motorbike to Osezaki Beach, Numazu, for four days and three nights; on the third night, when he went to the toilet, he left the bungalow and disappeared. Kwon Hyuk, who defected in 1999, testified that he lived in the same room with him for about three months in 1997. | |||||||||
| 136 | 2/8/1969 | KATSUMI NAKAMURA | M | 26 | 1/5/1943 | Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Pref. | Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Pref. | Worked at a milk store | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from a room he rented in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, leaving a note saying he was going to Kobe on 2 Aug. In September, his landlord contacted the family. His passport was missing. The company he worked for was contacted for his salary, but never came to collect it. | |||||||||
| 137 | around9-10 /1969 | KIYOSHI ISHIDA | M | 26 | 16/3/1943 | Futatsui-cho, Akita Pref. | Futatui-cho,Akita Pref. | Sheet metalworking | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared when he came to help his parents harvest rice and said he would come back the next day. His pyjamas were thrown away at a neighbour's house and the house's power lines were cut. The date and time are unknown, but he was seen standing at the bus stop of Futatsui High School. | |||||||||
| 138 | 4/11/1969 | EIJI UEDA | M | 20 | 15/7/1949 | Shibuya Ward, Tokyo | Tottori Pref. | Preparatory students | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Worked part-time in hotels and coffee shops in Tokyo. Disappeared after telling the landlord of his lodgings that he was going to Kyoto. He was carrying a single paper bag and wearing a black coat. Witness testimony given by An Myeongjin when he visited the South Korean Revolutionary Historic Site in 1990. | |||||||||
| 139 | 27/1/1970 | MICHISHITO YOKOTA | M | 23 | 21/7/1946 | Annaka City, Gunma Pref. | Annaka City, Gunma Pref. | Zinc Company Researcher | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Saved salary during lunch break. After working overtime and paying the monthly instalment to the electrical shop, the electrical shop assistant saw him at the bus stop at 19:30; around January he celebrated with his family that his "new research was a success". | |||||||||
| 140 | around2/1970 | FUMIO FURUKAWA | M | 18 | 5/9/1951 | in the direction of Fukui Pref. | Amagasaki-ｃｉｔｙ Hyougo Pref. | Carpenter Apprentice | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Sometimes has asthma attacks and cannot breathe. Disappeared after leaving home to go to the Fukui area for a visit for about three days. On the third day after leaving, he received a phone call saying he would return in three more days, but he did not return. A letter (the contents of which are pawnbrokes such as his camera) arrives later, postmarked Ishikawa Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 141 | 3/2/1970 | HAJIME SHICHIJO | M | 21 | 22/8/1948 | Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Pref. | Ｔokushima Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left his lodgings in Suginami, Tokyo, on 3 February, travelled to the Hokuriku region, stayed overnight at a youth hostel in Kanazawa on 9 February, and disappeared after leaving at 9:15 on 10 February. There are two testimonies: one says it was snowing and he walked on the snow saying he was going to see the snowy scenery of Kenrokuen Garden, and the other says he left the lodge saying he was going to visit Tojinbo and Eiheiji Temple. On the 10th, he had a promise to take his grandparents back from his mother's family home in Nishinomiya on the evening ferry and attend a memorial service on the 11th. | |||||||||
| 142 | 3/1970 | MASAKO SHIBA | F | 16 | Tateyama City,Chiba Pref. | Kisarazu City, Chiba Pref. | Barber apprentice | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After going to Hojo Beach in Tateyama City with a friend, they went missing. | |||||||||
| 143 | 18/4/1970 | SHIRO KATO | M | 22 | Sapporo City,Hokkaido | Sapporo City,Hokkaido | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After speaking with his mother at their home in Sapporo, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 144 | 15/6/1970 | MASUICHI SATO | M | 25 | 30/3/1945 | Ikeda City, Osaka Pref. | Kagoshima Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]13 June He borrowed money from his sister, telling her he was going on a trip to Awaji Island with a friend. It is unclear whether or not he went to Awaji Island afterwards. On 15 June, his parents received a phone call from the company saying that he had not come to work and that he should not have been absent without permission because he had a serious attitude towards his work. The company then received a phone call from someone other than himself saying that Masuichi-san was no longer going to the company. The name given was neither at the company nor at the high school. | |||||||||
| 145 | 19/7/1970 | TSUTOMU KOSHIKAWA | M | 24 | 18/4/1946 | Nerima Ward, Tokyo | Okazaki ｃｉｔｙ、Ａｉｃｈｉ Ｐｒｅｆ | company employee | North Korea Police,COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He told his flat landlord he was going to the beach, went out and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 146 | 8/8/1970 | KUMIKO KATO | F | 22 | 1/1/1948 | Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Pref. | Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Separated from her sister at the Okura stop on the Nishitetsu Kitakyushu City Line. She is believed to have headed to work, but did not arrive at work. An Myeongjin testified that she was the woman who was with Megumi at the Kim Jong Il Political-Military University from 1988-90. | |||||||||
| 147 | 5/9/1970 | HIROSHI SHIMODERA | M | 38 | Amagasaki City, Hyogo Pref. | Amagasaki City, Hyogo Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after resigning from a company in Amagasaki, Hyogo. | |||||||||
| 148 | 12/9/1970 | KOKICHI SONAN | M | 28 | Naha City,Okinawa Pref. | Naha City,Okinawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving work at a company in Naha City around 8:00 PM. | |||||||||
| 149 | around12/1970 | MASAMI OKAUCHI | M | 29 | 21/12/1941 | Takamatsu City, Kagawa Pref. | Takamatsu City, Kagawa Pref. | restaurant worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from a yakiniku restaurant owned by his brother in a white kappogi. No money in his possession, no driver's licence. | |||||||||
| 150 | around 1/1971 | KIYOSHI OTA | M | 18 | Sagamihara City,Kanagawa Pref. | Sagamihara City,Kanagawa Pref. | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from lodgings in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 151 | around 3/1971 | HIROSHI NOMURA | M | 23 | Bunkyo Ward,Tokyo | Bunkyo Ward,Tokyo | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from lodgings in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. | |||||||||
| 152 | 20/3/1971 | TAKESHI ECHIKAWA | M | 32 | Okazaki City,Aichi Pref. | Okazaki City,Aichi Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving an acquaintance's house. | |||||||||
| 153 | 24/3/1971 | NOBUO MURAMOTO | M | 38 | 18/8/1932 | Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Drivers Clerical | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was a Japanese confectioner when he was younger. Disappeared from home. No problems with relationships, etc. Never leaves without telling where he is going. | |||||||||
| 154 | 4/4/1971 | AYAKO YAMASHITA | F | 28 | 20/9/1942 | Imabari City, Ehime Pref. | Imabari City, Ehime Pref. | nurse | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home on a bicycle; found two days later at Imabari station with a single cherry branch in the basket. Her bank book, nursing licence and personal seal were at home. | |||||||||
| 155 | 6/7/1971 | YUKITOSHI KUROIWA(EMURA) | M | 18 | Kishiwada City,Osaka Pref. | Kishiwada City,Osaka Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Kishiwada City, Osaka Prefecture and went missing。 | |||||||||
| 156 | 8/1971 | CHIRIKO KUBOTA | F | 15 | Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | unemployed | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving a public bathhouse in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 157 | 2/12/1971 | SHIZUKO NATORI | F | 19 | 16/2/1952 | Kitahiyama-cho, Hokkaido | Setana-cho Hokkaodo Pref. | hardware shop employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Worked at the hardware shop of his sister's daughter-in-law. She commuted by train to Kitahiyama Station on the JNR Setanabara Line and disappeared on her way home from the shop 400 metres away. She left the shop about an hour late because her mother, who was returning from Shizuoka that day, arrived at Kitahiyama station later than usual at around 7:30am. | |||||||||
| 158 | 27/12/1971 | HIROKO SAKAMOTO | F | 20 | Muroran City,Hokkaido | Muroran City,Hokkaido | domestic helper | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Muroran City, Hokkaido. | |||||||||
| 159 | 29/12/1971 | KATSUYOSHI INOUE | M | 21 | 8/6/1950 | Kawaguchi City, Saitama Pref. | Gunma Pewf. | Worked for an electrical engineering company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared just before the birth of his first son. After a year-end party at the electrical engineering company where he worked in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, he drank until 1am in Kawaguchi City, had dinner at a sushi restaurant and parted company with his friends. Drunken state. His wife called his parents' home in Maebashi City on 30 January, but he was not there. Took his watch and driver's licence, but did not renew them. | |||||||||
| 160 | 30/12/1971 | HAJIME SONODA | M | 53 | 25/2/1918 | Osaki-cho, Kagoshima Pref. | Osaki-cho, Kagoshima Pref. | poultry farm manager | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared on the way from Kagoshima to Miyazaki Airport with his wifeNo.161 to pick up their daughter who was returning home at around 11am. The car in which they were travelling has not been found. | |||||||||
| 161 | 30/12/1971 | TOSHIKO SONODA | F | 42 | 7/9/1929 | Osaki-cho, Kagoshima Pref. | Osaki-cho, Kagoshima Pref. | house wife | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]No.160 and at the same time. Defector saw a woman who looked very similar to her, and said she also closely resembled his eldest daughter, who lives in Kagoshima, Japan, 2013Photographs of his wife Toshiko obtained by the press, 2013. | |||||||||
| 162 | after 1972 | YOICHI HAMANO | M | 30 | Itani City,Hyogo Pref. | Itani City,Hyogo Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the workplace. | |||||||||
| 163 | around 2/1972 | RYUICHI EDO | M | 19 | Moriguchi City,Osaka Pref. | Moriguchi City,Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 164 | 17/2/1972 | AKIRA MOCHIZUKI | M | 22 | Edogawa Ward,Toko | Kawanehoncho,Shizuoka Pref. | university student.Part job at a printing company | North Korea Police,COMJAN |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In February, just before graduating from college, he disappeared from his apartment in Edogawa Ward, leaving behind a note that read, “I have some things on my mind, so I’m going on a short trip.” | |||||||||
| 165 | around5/1972 | TOSHIHIRO KAWAMITSU | M | 33 | 3/11/1938 | Zama-city Kanagawa Pref. | Nagoya City,Aichi Pfrf. | Cargo handling for vehicle manufacturers | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He lived in Nagoya City to work as a seasonal labourer, but his disappearance was during the period of his work in Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 166 | 1/3/1972 | TATSUYA TAKEMURA | M | 36 | Naka-gun,Ibaraki Pref. | Osaka Pref. | Former Head of Plutonium Production, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Resigned from his job in Tokai-mura Ibaraki Pref. and disappeared. Reports indicate he was a plutonium researcher. | |||||||||
| 167 | 3/3/1972 | TAKASHI SUMI | M | 27 | Nagoya City,Aichi Pref. | Nagoya City,Aichi Pref. | Plumbing and Drainage Construction Business (Self-Employed) | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 168 | 24/3/1972 | MASAKO HIRAYAMA | F | 25 | 4/9/1945 | Aomori City, Aomori Pref. | Aomori City, Aomori Pref. | restaurant worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She worked as amagic show assistantas a hobby. On the day in question, she was supposed to attend a meeting about competing in the world championships in Hawaii and acelebration for her sister's award win, but she failed to show up at either event and went missing. Her car was found abandoned on the coast, 1.5 kilometers from her home. | |||||||||
| 169 | 6/4/1972 | NOBUKI TSUTAYA | M | 17 | Kushiro City,Hokkaido | Kushiro City,Hokkaido | hischool student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 170 | around 6/1972 | SHISEI GOYA | M | 24 | Ginowan City,Okinawa Pref. | Ginowan City,Okinawa Pref. | Electronics Store Management | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 171 | 6/7/1972 | REIKO UNOURA | F | 20 | Meguro Ward,Tokyo | Meguro Ward,Tokyo | unemployed | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left his brother's home in Tokyo saying, “I'm going to look for a job, I'm going to my aunt's place in Kinshicho,” and disappeared. Later, a telegram arrived stating he was in Wakkanai, Hokkaido. | |||||||||
| 172 | 29/7/1972 | TERUYOSHI UENO | M | 21 | Simonoseki City,Yamaguchi Pref | Minamisatsuma City,Kagosima Pref. | crane operator on a car carrier. | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Entered Shimonoseki Port as a crane operator on a car carrier. Disappeared after dining with colleagues. | |||||||||
| 173 | around 8/1972 | KATSUMI TAGAWA | M | 24 | Shibuya Ward, Tokyo | JPN | barber | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After resigning from the barbershop where he worked, he disappeared.。 | |||||||||
| 174 | around 9/1972 | MASAHIRO MITSUSE | M | 25 | Handa City,Aichi Pref. | Handa City,Aichi Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 175 | 10/9/1972 | JYUNSHICHI TAKENAKA | M | 21 | Komatsu City,Ishikawa Pref. | Komatsu City,Ishikawa Pref. | cram school student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 176 | 1/11/1972 | TAKAKO IKUSHIMA | F | 31 | 14/6/1941 | Shibuya Ward, Tokyo | Shibuya Ward, Tokyo | telephone operator | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Worked at the Azabu branch of the Minato Ward Office, Tokyo. Disappeared after preparing the next day's clothing. She told her sister, who was going out, that she would go out when she got a call in the evening. The next day at night a man's voice called her, and now it's too late to do anything about it. Dr Wu Yoshio, a South Korean doctor of economics who defected, testified that he resembles a Japanese woman who taught him Japanese in a flat in Pyongyang in 1985. | |||||||||
| 177 | 12/11/1972 | KAORU SASAKI | M | 22 | 18/10/1950 | Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Pref. | Hiroshima City,Hiroshima Pref | cook | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He likes singing and also goes by the stage name Miwa Kenji. Disappeared after returning to his parents' home for a festival. A woman asked him twice afterwards if he was at his parents' house. | |||||||||
| 178 | 16/11/1972 | SHIN YAMAMOTO | M | 24 | Arita-gun,Wakayama Pref. | Arita-gun,Wakayama Pref. | Private | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After eating lunch at home, he disappeared without | |||||||||
| 179 | around 1973~74 | KIMIKO UEYAMA | F | 16~18 | Asahikawa City,Hokkaido | Asahikawa City,Hokkaido | unemployed | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 180 | 24/1/1973 | KATSUHIRO SATSUMA | M | 24 | 11/10/1949 | Noshiro City, Akita Pref. | Happoｰcho Akita Pref. | agriculture | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He returned home with a colleague, a woman from Noshiro, but she opposed his marriage, so he drove off and disappeared when he dropped her off in Noshiro. His car was never found. | |||||||||
| 181 | 25/2/1973 | HIROMI MASUDA | F | 20 | 29/8/1952 | Masuda City, Shimane Pref. | Tsuwano-cho, Shimane Pref. | kimono shop clerk | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She was in charge of opening the shutters in the morning at the drapery shop where she worked, but disappeared after leaving a bag containing her lunch and some travel souvenirs at the back of the shop. | |||||||||
| 182 | 3/1973 | CHIEKO YAMASHITA | F | 21 | Himeji City,Hyogo Pref. | Himeji City,Hyogo Pref. | former company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after parting ways with her mother at Himeji Station | |||||||||
| 183 | 22/5/1973 | KOICHI YAMAGUCHI | M | 18 | 28/9/1954 | Aomori Pref. | Osaka Pref. | senior high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after travelling with a woman with whom he was in a relationship and calling home from a hotel in Lake Towada. Disappeared together with a woman (undisclosed). | |||||||||
| 184 | around7/1973 | FUMIKO TOYAMA | F | 21 | 2/5/1952 | Hakui City, Ishikawa Pref. | Sumida Ward,Tokyo | Worked for a construction company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She appears to have left her parents' home in Sumida-ku at the end of March to live in a flat with her colleague 185 Kazuo Tsutsumi, but they both resigned in June. She sends her friends albums taken on her travels around Japan. She has since disappeared. Kwon Hyuk testified that they had dinner together at the Chongin Office in 1993. | |||||||||
| 185 | around 7/1973 | KAZUO TSUTSUMI | M | 27 | Hakui City, Ishikawa Pref. | Setagaya Ward,Tokyo | Construction Company Employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]No. 184: Disappeared along with Fumiko Toyama. | |||||||||
| 186 | 7/7/1973 | NORIKO FURUKAWA | F | 18 | 1/1/1955 | Ichihara City, Chiba Pref. | Ichihara City, Chiba Pref. | Worked for a shipbuilding company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She disappeared despite her hairdresser telling her family that she had cancelled a hairdressing appointment and a trip to buy a yukata with her mother. An Myeongjin testified that he spoke to her at 915 Hospital in Pyongyang in 1991. | |||||||||
| 187 | 6/8/1973 | KYOKO YAMAMOTO | F | 24 | Sakai City,Osaka Pref. | Sakai City,Osaka Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after treatment at a dental clinic near her home. | |||||||||
| 188 | 19/8/1973 | KENICHI ETO | M | 20 | 27/5/1953 | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | Osaka Pref. | University student working for a photoengraving company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He worked for a photoengraving company while attending the Department of Printing Engineering at the Junior College of Technology at Chiba University. He disappeared after receiving a phone call saying he would start work tomorrow; on 13 August he returned to his parents' home in Osaka. | |||||||||
| 189 | 9/1973 | MORIO YOSHII | M | 19 | Suginami Ward,Tokyo | Suginami Ward,Tokyo | Newspaper Delivery Person | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left the company dormitory and went missing. | |||||||||
| 190 | 11/1973 | KIYOHISA KUBO | M | 23 | Nishitokyo City,Tokyo | Nishitokyo City,Tokyo | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Nishi-Tokyo City, Tokyo. | |||||||||
| 191 | 11/1973 | KIYOSHI KUMAKURA | M | 24 | Shibata City,Nigata Pref. | Shibata City,Nigata Pref. | Carpenter's apprentice | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 192 | 8/11/1973 | YOSHIMASA TSUKAGOSHI | M | 24 | 26/8/1949 | Pakistan | Gifu Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He travelled to 20 countries, including Finland, West Germany, France, Italy, Turkey and Iran, and disappeared after a letter dated 8 November from Pakistan. | |||||||||
| 193 | 26/11/1973 | YUKO TSUTSUI | F | 22 | Mitsu-cyo(now Toyokawa City) Aichi Pref | Mitsu-cyo(now Toyokawa City) Aichi Pref | Nurse | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 194 | 12/1/1974 | KAZUHIKO MIURA | M | 21 | 28/3/1952 | Shima-cho(now Itoshima City) Fukuoka Pref. | Fukuoka Pref. | Assembly of electrical products | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He said he was going to Maebaru with No.195, but left his car on the beach near Keyano Oto, Shima Town. There is a licence and a coat in the car. Two of their shoes had fallen one by one by the car. | |||||||||
| 195 | 12/1/ 1974 | SACHIKO HATANO | F | 18 | 14/2/1955 | Shima-cho(now Itoshima City) Fukuoka Pref. | Fukuoka Pref. | Assembly of electrical products | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Concurrently with No. 194 | |||||||||
| 196 | 16/1/1974 | HIDETOSHI SAKAI | M | 22 | 1/1/1952 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Ichinomiya City, Aichi Pref. | University fourth year student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from his lodgings in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto. His employment was set in Nagoya City and he was busy with his graduation thesis. The room was in the same condition as he had been living in only just now. From August to October the previous year, he had travelled alone in France, the UK and the Netherlands. | |||||||||
| 197 | around2/1974 | BUNNAI SHIMAWAKI | M | 23 | 18/5/1950 | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He went to work from a company dormitory in Tarumi Ward Kobe City, but disappeared without leaving it. He left his tangerine possessions and money in his room and showed no sign of having changed. | |||||||||
| 198 | 26/1/1974 | MOTOKO SATO | F | 23 | Shiroisi City,Miyagi Pref | Shiroisi City,Miyagi Pref | store clerk | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving her workplace in Miyagi Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 199 | 24/2/1974 | TAKASHI OSAWA | M | 27 | 21/6/1946 | Nibo-mura, Nigata Pref. | Nigata City, Ｎｉｇａｔａ Ｐｒｅｆ． | Agricultural engineer working at the county agricultural land office | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after having dinner at a restaurant 400 m from the bachelor dormitory and stopping at an acquaintance's house. A North Korean match had fallen in front of the dormitory. Multiple other indications of North Korean links. | |||||||||
| 200 | around 10/2/1974 | KENZO HARUNARI | M | 32 | Sendai City,Miyagi Pref. | Sendai City,Miyagi Pref. | Design Firm Internship | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared without reporting to work at his workplace in Sendai City. | |||||||||
▼ Missing Persons Registry No.201 – 300 Toggle
| No. | Date of Disappearance | Name | Sex | Age | Date of Birth | Area of Disappearance | Residence at the Time | Occupation | Abducting Country / Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | around 3/1974 | HIDEKO WATANABE | F | 32 | 5/6/1941 | Kamifukuoka City(now Fujimino City), Saitama Pref. | Obohiro City,Hokkaido | housewife | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Her husband, Ko Daiki, was a North Korean agent, but he concealed his identity from his wife as well, and secretly travelled to North Korea in 1973. She moved to Saitama Prefecture and lost contact with her husband, who disappeared while she was searching for him with her daughter Koh Kiyomi and son Koh Tsuyoshi. | |||||||||
| 202 | around 3/1974 | KIYOMI KO (acknowledged by National Police Agency) | F | 7 | 10/4/1967 | Obama City, Fukui Pref. | Kamifukuoka City(now Fujimino City), Saitama Pref. | primary schools student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Her mother, Hideko Watanabe No. 109, and she were searching for her father, Ko Daiki, when he disappeared. There is information that Kiyomi and Tsuyoshi wer abducted by ship from Obama, Fukui Prefecture, in June 1974. The police have determined it was an abduction. | |||||||||
| 203 | around 3/1974 | TSUYOSHI KO (acknowledged by National Police Agency) | M | 4 | 29/6/1970 | Obama City, Fukui Pref. | Kamifukuoka City(now Fujimino City), Saitama Pref. | infant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]His mother, Hideko Watanabe No. 109, and he were searching for his father, Ko Daiki, when he disappeared. There is information that Kiyomi and Tsuyoshi wer abducted by ship from Obama, Fukui Prefecture, in June 1974. The police have determined it was an abduction. | |||||||||
| 204 | 3/1974 | YOSHIKO MATSUI | F | 36 | Ota Ward,Tokyo | Ota Ward,Tokyo | house wife | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home | |||||||||
| 205 | 14/3/1974 | YOSHIO ABE | M | 20 | Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Pref. | Miyawaka City,Fukuoka Pref | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after dining in Kitakyushu City | |||||||||
| 206 | 9/4/1974 | HIROEI WATANABE | M | 18 | Yamato City,Kanagawa Pref. | Nishiaidu-tyo,Fukusima Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving the company dormitory in Yamato City | |||||||||
| 207 | 5/1974 | TSUNEO SAITO | M | 42 | Off the coast of Izumozaki Town, Niigata Pref | Izumozaki-cho,Nigata Pref. | fisherman | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After departing from near his home in a small boat, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 208 | 4/5/1974 | TOMIO HORITA | M | 24 | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Pipefitter | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After calling home in Sapporo to say, “I'll stop by Odori Park,” he went missing. | |||||||||
| 209 | 13/5/ 1974 | TOSHIO ARATANI | M | 25 | 25/10/1948 | Shin-minato City, Toyama Pref. | Shin-minato City, Toyama Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while leaving his home while his family was out. The home was a few dozen metres from the mouth of the Sea of Japan and behind it was an unmanned railway station. | |||||||||
| 210 | 14/6/1974 | KIMIMASA KIYOZAKI | M | 41 | 5/9/1932 | Amagasaki City, Hyogo Pref. | Amagasaki City, Hyogo Pref. | Construction company management | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He went to work as usual at the construction company he manages and disappeared, leaving his lunch box and the ¥500,000 he had withdrawn from the bank that day at the company. The company is in good financial condition. | |||||||||
| 211 | 24/6/1974 | YUKIO WATANABE | M | 24 | Hachinohe City,Aomori Pref. | Hachinohe City,Aomori Pref. | Welder | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left by car from an apartment in Hachinohe City and disappeared without a trace | |||||||||
| 212 | 11/7/1974 | TOSHIKO SEKIYA | F | 17 | 19/5/1957 | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | Ichihihara City,Chiba Pref. | Time-limited College Student Shop Assistant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Toshiko Sekiya No. 212 and Tsuneko Toyama No. 213 had the same school and work place. Hideo Mineshima No.214 is a relative of Ms Sekiya's. After the two helped Ms Sekiya move out that day, Mr Mineshima told his sister, who runs a restaurant, that he would drive them home, and all three disappeared with the car while he drove away. | |||||||||
| 213 | 11/7/1974 | TSUNEKO TOYAMA | F | 17 | 22/6/1957 | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | Ichihihara City,Chiba Pref. | Time-limited College Student Shop Assistant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as Toshiko Sekiya No. 212 and Hideo Minashima No. 214 | |||||||||
| 214 | 11/7/ 1974 | HIDEO MINESHIMA | M | 21 | 2/9/1952 | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | Worked for an electrical engineering company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as Toshiko Sekiya No. 212 and Tsuneko Toyama No.213 | |||||||||
| 215 | 28/7/1974 | KYOKO SHIBATA | F | 26 | Nagoya City,Aichi Pref. | Nagoya City,Aichi Pref. | unemployed | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She went out saying she was “going to buy a Shinkansen ticket at Nagoya Station” and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 216 | 17/8/1974 | HARUO YAMASHITA | M | 28 | 25/3/1946 | Obama City, Fukui Pref. | JPN | Worked for a shipbuilding company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the company's dormitory while out night fishing on the coast. Good swimmer. | |||||||||
| 217 | 27/9/1974 | EMIKO TAKEYA | F | 18 | 8/9/1956 | Kakogawa City, Hyogo Pref. | Kakogawa City, Hyogo Pref. | Formerly worked for an electronics manufacturer | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left a major electrical manufacturer and disappeared about a month before her disappearance, leaving home to work in a bakery near Kobe, Japan. | |||||||||
| 218 | 6/12/1974 | WAKAO ISHIKAWA | M | 27 | 19/9/1947 | Hachioji City, Tokyo | Akiruno City,Tokyo | Worked for an electronics manufacturer | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After organising a company year-end party, he drove everyone home and disappeared with his car. | |||||||||
| 219 | 29/12/1974 | KAZUMI WAKU | F | 21 | Tokushima City,Tokushima Pref. | Tokushima City,Tokushima Pref. | unemployed | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Still missing after leaving home | |||||||||
| 220 | around 1/1975 | EIJI FUJIWARA | M | 25 | 26/7/1949 | Fukui Pref. | Hiroshima Pref. | cook | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He had been working in Tokyo but suddenly disappeared at the beginning of January after calling his parents in Hiroshima to say he was currently in Fukui Prefecture on a fishing trip. | |||||||||
| 221 | 4/2/1975 | YURIKO NAIKI | F | 22 | Nagoya City,Aichi Pref. | Nagoya City,Aichi Pref. | Hairstylist | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Still missing after leaving home | |||||||||
| 222 | 23/3/1975 | KUMIKO TAKEUCHI | F | 13 | 25/2/1942 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | junior high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from home shortly after primary school graduation; very concerned that she had not received a phone call to herself for about two months. | |||||||||
| 223 | 3/3/1975 | MASAYUKI YAMAMOTO | M | 33 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left his home in Osaka City saying he was “going to look for work” and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 224 | 4/4/1975 | YOSHIHIKO HAGIMOTO | M | 35 | 15/1/1940 | Takasago City, Hyogo Pref. | Takasago City, Hyogo Pref. | Electricity safety officer, steelmaking company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while cycling to work from home; former North Korean agent who defected in 1976 testified that he saw him two or three times in Pyongyang, North Korea | |||||||||
| 225 | 18/5/1975 | YASUHIKO AKAISHI | M | 14 | 1/6/1960 | Suzu City, Ishikawa Pref. | Suzu City, Ishikawa Pref. | junior high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He told his family he would be home soon and disappeared while out on his bicycle. His bicycle was found on a nearby beach and his sandals and socks were left in a boat floating offshore. | |||||||||
| 226 | around 6/1975 | SEIICHI MATSUMOTO(PAK) | M | 29 | Itabasi Ward,Tokyo | Itabasi Ward,Tokyo | Former bank employee | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]“I'll be back soon,” he told his family before leaving home and vanishing. | |||||||||
| 227 | early 7/1975 | SHOJI MIYASAKA | M | 27 | Toda City,Saitama Pref. | Toda City,Saitama Pref. | Cleaning staff | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He worked at the same company as his younger brother, Shozo Miyasaka (No. 228), but the company reported that neither of them had been coming to work, and they went missing. | |||||||||
| 228 | early 7/1975 | SHOZO MIYASAKA | M | 27 | Toda City,Saitama Pref. | Toda City,Saitama Pref. | Cleaning staff | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He worked at the same company as his older brother, Shoji Miyasaka No. 227, but the company reported that neither of them had been coming to work, and they went missing. | |||||||||
| 229 | 8/1975 | KOTARO ITO | M | 26 | Taito Ward,Tokyo | Taito Ward,Tokyo | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home | |||||||||
| 230 | 8/1975 | TSUNEHIRO KUBO | M | 29 | Sagamihara City,Kanagawa Pref. | Sagamihara City,Kanagawa Pref. | cooker | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]e left his brother's home, where he had been staying while saying he was “going to Hachioji for fun,” and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 231 | 25/8/1975 | TAEKO YAMADA(ABE) | F | 22 | 17/2/1953 | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She was living away from her parents, but when her family called, they were told she had been away for two or three days. She went to a friend's house to say goodbye in person, but she was as exhausted as if she were a different person. A few days ago she called her sister and told her to get on with her family and live well, and then she disappeared. | |||||||||
| 232 | around 25/8/1975 | HAYATO KIMACHI | M | 20 | Uji City,Kyoto Pref. | Tottori Pref. | university studennt | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving the boarding house | |||||||||
| 233 | 9/1975 | HIFUMI KUWAMURA | M | 21 | Himeji City,Hyogo Pref. | Himeji City,Hyogo Pref. | Former Restaurant Staff Member | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving the workplace | |||||||||
| 234 | around 1976 | KIMIKO FUKUTOME | F | 24 | Tokyo | Kochi Pref. | security company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In 1976, she left the country saying she was going to Mongolia and disappeared. She married Takeshi Okamoto, a Yodo-go hijacker in North Korea, and returned to Japan in 1980, but was later returned to North Korea. | |||||||||
| 235 | 31/1/1976 | SEIZEN CHINEN | M | 25 | Naha City,Okinawa Pref. | Naha City,Okinawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Naha City saying “I'm going to work” and has since gone missing | |||||||||
| 236 | 7/2/1976 | SUSUMU FUJITA | M | 19 | 16/6/1956 | Kawaguchi City, Saitama Pref. | Kawaguchi City, Saitama Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home saying he was going to his part-time job as a guard in Shinjuku, where a forensic and police expert concluded in 2004 that a photograph of what appeared to be an identity card in the defector's possession was very likely to be the person in question. Former North Korean agent An Myongjin testified that he saw him at the table tennis hall of the Kim Jong Il Political-Military University. Other unconfirmed sightings include. | |||||||||
| 237 | 11/2/1976 | TOMOHIKO MURAO | M | 19 | Nagasaki City,Nagasaki Pref. | Nagasaki City,Nagasaki Pref. | university student | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was a university student in Nagasaki City, but on this day a letter arrived from Sapporo, Hokkaido, addressed to a friend, and he subsequently went missing. | |||||||||
| 238 | around 4/1976 | KENJI NARUI | M | 28 | Setagaya Ward,Tokyo | Setagaya Ward,Tokyo | unknown | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his lodgings in Tokyo | |||||||||
| 239 | 5/1976 | HARUO TAKAHASHI | M | 31 | Katsushika Ward,Tokyo | Katsushika Ward,Tokyo | Worker | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left their home in Tokyo saying they were “going to a friend's house in Shizuoka Prefecture” and have since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 240 | 24/6/1976 | EIJI INOUE | M | 22 | Hiizen-cho,Saga Pref. | Hiizen-cho,Saga Pref. | Agriculture | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After calling home saying they were “going out to play,” they disappeared. | |||||||||
| 241 | around 7/1976 | ERIKO MATSUSHITA | F | 22 | Nijima-mura,Tokyo | Kodaira City,Tokyo | Childcare Worker | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the coast of Niijima, Tokyo | |||||||||
| 242 | 30/7/1976 | KIYOFUMI TAKANO | M | 19 | 31/10/1956 | Kozu Island, Tokyo | Nagano Pref. | University of Electro-Communications student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He had been on Kozushima Island in Izu for a university dormitory camp since the day before his disappearance, and disappeared while leaving the inn at around 13:45 on the day of his disappearance. He said he was going to climb a mountain the next day, so the police and others searched the mountains on the island but were unable to find him. A similar disappearance occurred at the same time on the neighbouring island of Niijima, case No. 241. | |||||||||
| 243 | 1/8/1976 | NAOKA SAGA | F | 6 | 21/3/1970 | Nemuro City, Hokkaido | Nemuro City, Hokkaido | infant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving the house at around 13:30, saying she was going out to play. An acquaintance saw her in front of a department store about 10 minutes' walk away, holding what looked like a tree branch. | |||||||||
| 244 | 2/8/1976 | TOMIKO KUNIHIRO | F | 24 | 9/2/1952 | Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref. | nurse | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared at around 20:00 at night after going out to buy cigarettes from a cigarette vending machine at the request of his mother. She has just started working at a new hospital in the city. North Korean defector Kwon Hyuk testified that she resembles a woman who brought gifts to a party at the home of a central party official in Pyongyang City. Other unconfirmed reports say that she is living in a foreigner's accommodation in Rajin. | |||||||||
| 245 | 10/8/1976 | YOSHINORI SAKAUE | M | 28 | 21/5/1948 | Hara-machi(Now Minami-soma City) Fukushima Pref. | Hoｋkaido | Working at a petrol station | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He lived in a boarding house in the city and walked to work. On the day of the incident, he left the lodge with his handbag as usual, but did not show up at his place of work and disappeared | |||||||||
| 246 | 10/1976 | YASUHIRO KARASAWA | M | 20 | Nigata City, Nigata Pref. | AganoCity,Nigata Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving a restaurant in Niigata City, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 247 | 5/10/1976 | SHIMIKO INYAKU | F | 34 | Esashi-cho,Hokkaido | Esashi-cho,Hokkaido | shopkeeper | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left her self-owned shop saying she was going to her home in the city and has since disappeared. | |||||||||
| 248 | around 2/1977 | SAKAE OMIYA | M | 24 | Odawara City,Kanagawa Pref. | Odawara City,Kanagawa Pref. | unemployed | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving her parents' home in Odawara City | |||||||||
| 249 | 30/1/1977 | TOSHIAKI TAMAI | M | 30 | 14/10/1946 | Beppu City, Fukuoka Pref. | Beppu City, Fukuoka Pref. | Restaurant management Also repairs trucks. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He runs a restaurant near his home with his wife. After opening the restaurant that evening, he told his employees he was going out for a while and disappeared while leaving the restaurant. | |||||||||
| 250 | 3/1977 | TOMOSHIGE KAKEHI | M | 34 | Hamasaka-cho,Hyogo Pref. | Hamasaka-cho,Hyogo Pref. | former company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home | |||||||||
| 251 | 3/1977 | NORIYUKI FUSE | M | 23 | 9/2/1954 | Nagoya City, Aichi Pref. | JPN | part-time job | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]The previous year, he had left university to work for a company in Nagoya, but left in December of that year and worked part-time; in March, he sent a letter to his sister saying that he was going to a friend's house in Okinawa, enclosing a photograph, a bank book and his personal seal. The letter said he would be gone for two months, but as it was, she lost all contact with him. | |||||||||
| 252 | 12/3/1977 | KENKO YOSHIDA | M | 36 | Shiroishi City, Fukushima Pref. | Iwate Pref. | former group member | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Until the previous year he had been an organisation official in Tokyo. Stayed at his uncle's house in Miyagi Prefecture for about three months due to ill health, but disappeared after his sister saw him off at Shiroishi Station on the Tohoku Main Line, saying he was going to Osaka. | |||||||||
| 253 | 1977(S52)4/30 | ZENICHI OSHIRO | M | 33 | Tomigusuku City, Okinawa Prefecture | Tomigusuku City, Okinawa Prefecture | Taxi driver | North Korea Police |
|
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Wife No. 254 disappeared after telling the family she was going on a trip with me. | |||||||||
| 254 | 1977(S52)4/30 | NOBUKO OSHIRO | F | 31 | Tomigusuku City, Okinawa Prefecture | Tomigusuku City, Okinawa Prefecture | husewife | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She told her family she was going on a trip with Husband No. 253, but disappeared after leaving. | |||||||||
| 255 | around 5/1977 | TSUGUHIRO NAKAZATO | M | 25 | 15/11/1950 | Kanto Region | Ｏｋｉｎａｗａ Ｐｒｅｆ． | Sheet metal painting industry | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In 2002, a male voice called his sister's house in Okinawa, saying "I think Tsugihiro-san is in North Korea". Also, a person claiming to be a North Korean defector phoned her home to say 'there was a Japanese man called Mr Chu'.He started his career as a group worker from Okinawa at a steel company in Yokohama, joined the Ground Self-Defence Force for two years, then worked at the Zama plant of Nissan Motor Co. and disappeared after a 20-day stay at a fasting centre in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 256 | 21/5/1977 | AKIRA ARAKI | M | 29 | 16/10/1947 | Kawaguchi City, Saitama Pref. | Kawaguchi City, Saitama Pref. | bank employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was working in the electronic calculations section of the administrative department of the bank where he worked, which was responsible for connecting branches online. Disappeared on the same day after leaving his home, saying he was going shopping after lunch and would be back by 6 or 7pm. | |||||||||
| 257 | 27/6/1977 | TEIJI YOKOYAMA | M | 20 | Nagaizumi-cho,Shizuoka Pref. | Nagaizumi-cho,Shizuoka Pref. | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home | |||||||||
| 258 | 7/1977 | HIROSHI WACHI | M | 39 | 10/8/1938 | Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Pref. | Asakura-machi Fukuoka Pref. | construction company worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He went to visit his sister in a hospital in Fukuoka City and said he wanted to go because it would be far away but it would give him money. Disappeared after his sister died. | |||||||||
| 259 | 30/7/1977 | TOKUJIRO OKIMOTO | M | 18 | Sakai City,Osaka Pref. | Sakai City,Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Osaka City on a motorcycle | |||||||||
| 260 | around 25/8/1977 | KUNIO YAMADA | M | 33 | Kagoshima City,Kagoshima Pref. | Kagoshima City,Kagoshima Pref. | Tsumugi processing artisan | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Kagoshima City by bicycle | |||||||||
| 261 | 30/8/1977 | MASAAKI SUZUKI | M | 25 | 29/5/1952 | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | Instructor at a facility for the disabled Part-time job at the Japan-China Friendship Association | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the night of the day, a former colleague visited his apartment in Chiba City and found him talking to a young woman on the street. No information afterwards. | |||||||||
| 262 | 1/9/1977 | AKIRA FUNAKOSHI | M | 21 | Hyogo Pref. | Fukuchiyama City,KyotoPref. | Self-Defense Forces personnel | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his brother's house in Hyogo Prefecture | |||||||||
| 263 | 16/9/1977 | FUMIO YASUMURA (YUN) | M | 23 | 3/9/1954 | Mine City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Mine City, Yamaguchi Pref. | without an occupation | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After graduating from a prefectural high school in Yamaguchi Prefecture, he entered the engineering department of the Korean University, but dropped out after his first year due to language barriers and ideological discomfort, and returned to his parents' home in Yamaguchi. Disappeared while out in his car, saying he was going to look for work. | |||||||||
| 264 | 19/9/1977 | YUTAKA KUME (acknowledged by Japan Government) | M | 52 | 17/2/1925 | Noto-cho, Ishikawa Pref. . | Mitaka-City,Tokyo | Security guard at Mitaka City Hall, Tokyo | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was deceived and abducted to North Korea from the port of Udezu, Ishikawa Prefecture, by a Korean resident in Japan, Ri Shukichi | |||||||||
| 265 | 10/1977 | SUZUKATSU KATO | M | 55 | 1/2/1922 | Nagoya City, Aichi Pref. | Nagoya City, Aichi Pref. | (being in) the building trade | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around 8am on the morning of the day, he called his second daughter to tell her something in a bouncy voice, but when she told him she had to leave for work, he said, "Well, good luck" and hung up the phone. He just disappeared. | |||||||||
| 266 | 10/1977 | JYUNKO KAWAKAMI | F | 37 | Ninomiya-mati,Kanagawa Pref. | Ninomiya-mati,Kanagawa Pref. | housewife | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from his home in Kanagawa Prefecture | |||||||||
| 267 | around 10/1977 | YUJI TAKAHASHI | M | 22 | Hiroshima City,Hirosima Pref. | Hiroshima City,Hirosima Pref. | university student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from his home in Hiroshima City | |||||||||
| 268 | 15/10/1977 | AKIKO SHIN | F | 31 | Kikai-cho,Kagosima Pref. | Kikai-cho,Kagosima Pref. | housewife | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After preparing breakfast at home, she went missing. | |||||||||
| 269 | 21/10/1977 | KYOKO MATSUMOTO (acknowledged by Japan Government) | F | 29 | 7/9/1948 | Yonago City, Tottori Pref. | Yonago City, Tottori Pref. | Worked in a sewing factory | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left home around 8pm to go to a knitting class near her house, but a neighbour saw Ms Matsumoto and two men talking about 200m from her house and asked what they were doing, one of the men hit this man, and soon afterwards the two men and Ms Matsumoto disappeared, leaving one sandal behind. Former North Korean People's Army Captain Kim Kuk-seok, who defected to South Korea in 2000, testified that he had a conversation in Cheongjin in 1996, with several other sources. | |||||||||
| 270 | 22/10/1977 | MASATERU MAEGAMI | M | 20 | 16/7/1957 | Asahikawa City, Hokkaido | Kyot Pref. | Part-time job | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He failed his art college entrance exam and spent two years studying to pass the exam. He went to Hokkaido with the money he saved from his part-time job and worked part-time at a ranch in Furano for four months; resigned from the ranch on 20 October and stayed at a hotel in front of Asahikawa station; on 22 October he left his sack at the temporary luggage storage at Asahikawa station and disappeared after saying 'please take care of my sack for three days'. | |||||||||
| 271 | 30/10/1977 | HISAJI GOTO | M | 63 | 18/2/1914 | Joetsu City, Nigata Pref. | Joetsu City, Nigata Pref. | former National Railways employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared in the evening of the same day while out shopping in the neighbourhood on behalf of his wife, who was unwell. When he worked for the Japanese National Railways (JR), he was a serious man anyway. | |||||||||
| 272 | 30/10/1977 | RIKIO KIKUCHI | M | 31 | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Ichinoseki City,Iwate Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving a company in Sapporo | |||||||||
| 273 | 14/11/1977 | MIZUKO FURUICHI | F | 47 | 8/4/1930 | Yonago City Tottori Pref. | Yonago City Tottori Pref. | Hot-spring inn waitress | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She was a skilled singer and dancer and was well known locally. After a furlough from her work at an inn that day, she changed into her normal clothes and went out and disappeared. A defector testified that she sang and danced at a wedding in 1990 at a foreign currency diner in Cheongjin. The last time he saw her was around February 2002, when she lived in front of his mother-in-law's house. | |||||||||
| 274 | 15/11/1977 | MEGUMI YOKOTA (acknowledged by Japan Government) | F | 13 | 5/10/1964 | Nigata City, Nigata Pref. | Nigata City, Nigata Pref. | junior high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of the abduction, she was on her way home after school badminton club practice and was abducted at the corner nearest her home after parting with a friend. North Korea handed over to Japan what it claimed were the 'remains of Megumi Yokota', claiming that she had committed suicide in 1993, but the DNA of a different person was detected and not that of the person herself. In addition, there have been a series of reports of her survival and sightings after she was declared dead. | |||||||||
| 275 | 24/11/1977 | TAKASHI GIMA | M | 35 | 2/10/1942 | on the surface of ocean south of Okinawa Pref. | Okinawa Pref. | Deck hand of the tuna hake fishing boat Kyoyo Maru No. 8 | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On 8 November 1977 the vessel Kyoyo Maru No. 8 left Tomari Port, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture. After operating in the Hateruma area, she arrived at Hirara Fishing Port on Miyako Island on the 18th, refuelled on the 24th and departed from Hirara Port. According to the captain and the fishing captain, they said they would go down to about 10 degrees north latitude to fish.She was due to return around 20 December, but did not return and was reported missing. The 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters searched the area from the sea and air, but found no evidence of the vessel or floating objects. | |||||||||
| 276 | 24/11/1977 | EIKI KINGAWA | M | 26 | 9/2/1951 | on the surface of ocean south of Okinawa Pref. | Okinawa Pref. | Deck hand of the tuna hake fishing boat Kyoyo Maru No. 8 | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as No. 275. | |||||||||
| 277 | 24/11/1977 | SEIKO TAJIMA | M | 46 | 29/5/1931 | on the surface of ocean south of Okinawa Pref. | Okinawa Pref. | Chief engineer of the tuna hake fishing boat Kyoyo Maru No. 8 | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as No. 275. | |||||||||
| 278 | 24/11/1977 | TAKASHI MAKISHI | M | 40 | 9/11/1937 | on the surface of ocean south of Okinawa Pref. | Okinawa Pref. | Maguro Haenawa Fishing Boat Captain Kyoyo Maru No. 8 | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as No. 275. | |||||||||
| 279 | 24/11/1977 | TAKEO YONEKURA | M | 38 | on the surface of ocean south of Okinawa Pref. | Okinawa Pref. | Deck hand of the tuna hake fishing boat Kyoyo Maru No. 8 | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as No. 275. | |||||||||
| 280 | 30/1/1978 | KOJI SATO | M | 25 | Hkodate City,Hokkaido | Hkodate City,Hokkaido | Cook | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left his home in Hakodate City and went missing | |||||||||
| 281 | 15/3/1978 | MASAKO TAKEDIMI | F | 18 | Karatsu City,Saga Pref | JPN | high school student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing in Karatsu City | |||||||||
| 282 | early 4/1978 | NAKAYOSHI KANEI | M | 30 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Saijyo City,Ehime Pref | barber | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Osaka City and went missing | |||||||||
| 283 | 5/1978 | TOSHIHISA BABA | M | 18 | Shimabara City,Nagasaki Pref. | Shimabara City,Nagasaki Pref. | Former Construction Worker | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Shimabara City and went missing | |||||||||
| 284 | around 5/1978 | KIYOKO MATSUZAWA | F | 35 | Yokohama City,Kanagawa Pref. | Yokohama City,Kanagawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| 285 | 6/6/1978 | MINORU TANAKA (acknowledged by Japan Government) | M | 28 | 28/7/1949 | Austria. | Kobe City、Hyogo Pref. | noodle restaurant worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He worked at the same ramen restaurant, Rai Dai, in Kobe, after being introduced by Ryukoh Kaneda, who was also from a children's home. The owner of the shop, Han Ryongdae, who was a member of a North Korean organisation, and Cao Tingle, a member of the organisation, conspired to take Mr Tanaka to Vienna and abduct him to North Korea via Moscow. This was exposed in the January 1997 issue of Bungei Shunju by Jang Yong-un, a Korean resident of Kobe City and a member of the same organisation. | |||||||||
| 286 | 12/6/ 1978 | YAEKO TAGUCHI (acknowledged by Japan Government) | F | 22 | 10/8/1955 | Toshima ward, Tokyo | Toshima ward, Tokyo | restaurant clerk | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]leaving her children, aged 3 and 1, at a baby hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo. She was abducted while the children were left with her. In North Korea, she was called Lee Unei. The North Koreans explained that she was married to Hara TadaakiNo.333 (a Chinese restaurant worker in Osaka who was abducted from Miyazaki Prefecture in 1980) and died in a traffic accident, but no evidence was presented. | |||||||||
| 287 | 13/7/1978 | TORU SHIGOKU | M | 29 | 26/7/1948 | Wakayama City, Wakayama Pref. | Wakayama City, Wakayama Pref. | construction company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared in the company's dormitory in Wakayama City, leaving behind a notebook containing his diary up to the day of his disappearance, as well as a seaman's notebook, pension book, health insurance card, bank book, personal seal and photo album. | |||||||||
| 288 | 12/8/1978 | SHUICHI ICHIKAWA (acknowledged by Japan Government) | M | 23 | 20/10/1954 | Kagoshima Pref. | Kagoshima Pref. | Electrotelecom Corporation (now NTT) employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Rumiko Masumoto No 290 and Shuichi Ichikawa No 289, who were in a relationship, left Kagoshima City in a car owned by Mr Ichikawa saying they were going to watch the sunset together and both disappeared. The car was found in the parking lot of the Fukiagehama campsite, locked and with Masumoto's bag and camera left on the passenger seat. An Myongjin An, a former agent and defector from North Korea, testified that the students had a conversation on the table tennis court at Kim Jong Il Political-Military University. Kim Kuk-seok wrote in his book that the instructor who taught Japanese in the reconnaissance command course at Madongsun University from 1990 to 1992 was Mr Ichikawa, with whom he also had conversations, and that this instructor's wife was Ms Masumoto. North Korea explained that they married in 1979 and that Mr Ichikawa died of a heart attack while swimming in the sea in September of that year, and that Ms Masumoto also died of illness in 1981, but the aforementioned testimony makes this less credible. | |||||||||
| 289 | 12/8/1978 | RUMIKO MASUMOTO (acknowledged by Japan Government) | F | 24 | 1/11/1953 | Kagoshima Pref. | Kagoshima Pref. | Worked for a cosmetics company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as Shuichi Ichikawa in No. 289. | |||||||||
| 290 | 12/8/1978 | MIYOSHI SOGA (acknowledged by Japan Government) | F | 46 | 28/12/1931 | Mano-cho(now Sado City), Nigata Pref. | Mano-cho(now Sado City), Nigata Pref. | factory worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She and her daughter Hitomi Soga (who was abducted by North Korea and returned to Japan in 2002) went shopping at a nearby shop and were abducted. According to Hitomi Soga, after shopping she was attacked by three men and abducted. North Korea says she has not yet entered the country, but there are unconfirmed but eyewitness accounts from North Korea. | |||||||||
| 291 | 15/8/1978 | Confidential A (Male) | M | 20 | Takaoka City,Totama Pref. | Takaoka City,Totama Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared with Ms. B No. 293 Government-Certified Victim of an Abduction Attempt | |||||||||
| 292 | 15/8/1978 | Confidential B (Female) | F | 20 | Takaoka City,Totama Pref. | Takaoka City,Totama Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared with MrA No.292 Government-recognized victim of attempted abduction | |||||||||
| 293 | 22/9/1978 | YAEKO KATO（ISHIKAWA) | F | 38 | 20/9/1940 | Gunma-cho(now Takasaki City), Gunma Pref. | Gunma-cho(now Takasaki City), Gunma Pref. | Worked for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (now NTT) | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She disappeared from her home during the night of 22 September and the morning of 23 September. The two children went to bed after 10pm, and when the eldest daughter woke up to use the toilet at around 5.45am and looked in her mother's room, she was already gone. | |||||||||
| 294 | 10/1978 | AKIO FUKUDA | M | 51 | Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left his home in Kawasaki City saying he was going to work and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 295 | 11/1978 | AKIRA SHINOOKA | M | 21 | Asago City,Hyogo Pref. | Asago City,Hyogo Pref. | univercity student | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left his home in Asago District, Hyogo Prefecture (now Asago City) and disappeared while returning to his lodgings in Osaka Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 296 | 15/12/1978 | MIKIO UZAWA | M | 24 | 1/12/1954 | Onjyuku-cho, Chiba Pref. | Mutｓuzawa-cho, Chiba Pref. | Company employee Delivering drinking water | North Korea police,COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving work, HeI went to a minshuku ryokan on the Onjyuku for a company year-end party. Drank a lot of alcohol for the stay, and went out with sandals at around 10:00 pm. The sandals were found in pieces on the embankment. A person who was night fishing near the embankment said, "I saw one person wandering alone from the ryokan, and another person approached from the opposite side, so I thought he knew him. When I noticed that neither of them . | |||||||||
| 297 | 23/12/1978 | HIROMI WATANABE | F | 16 | Mobara City,Chiba Pref. | Mobara City,Chiba Pref. | unemproyed | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home carrying a bag with a change of clothes and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 298 | around autumn1979 | MICHIKO ISHIZAKA | F | 25 | Nougata City,Fukuoka Pref. | Nougata City,Fukuoka Pref. | Food service workers | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After taking a day off from the restaurant where they worked, they went out alone and have since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 299 | 1/19791 | TAKASHI GOTO | M | 20 | Yokohama City,Kanagawa Pref. | Yokohama City,Kanagawa Pref. | Maintenance technician | North Korea Police |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after going out by car with three classmates from junior high school | |||||||||
| 300 | 1/1979 | KATASHI SASHIDA | M | 31 | Kawaguchi City,Saitama Pref. | Kawaguchi City,Saitama Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture | |||||||||
▼ Missing Persons Registry No.301 – 400 Toggle
| No. | Date of Disappearance | Name | Sex | Age | Date of Birth | Area of Disappearance | Residence at the Time | Occupation | Abducting Country / Status |
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| 301 | around 1/1979 | TSUYOSHI NEMOTO | M | 20 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home saying “I'm going to work” and has since gone missing | |||||||||
| 302 | 23/1/1979 | AKIIHIRO SAKAGUCHI | M | 43 | Izumiminami City,Osaka Pref. | Izumiminami City,Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After returning home from work and having lunch, he left the house on his bicycle saying he had “work arrangements to make” and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 303 | 2/2/1979 | MASAHIRO HOSHINO | M | 23 | 13/1/1956 | Tokyo | Nigata City,Niigata Pref. | Worked for a transportation company in Tokyo until the end of the previous year | North Korea police,COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He resigned from a transportation company in Tokyo, where he had worked until the end of the previous year, and went back to his hometown in Niigata, then returned to Tokyo to look for a job and disappeared. His disappearance was discovered when the landlord of his apartment informed him that he had been gone for more than two months. | |||||||||
| 304 | 14/2/1979 | AKIRA OGATA | M | 23 | 12/12/1950 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Gifu Pref. | university student. Part-time job at a restaurant | North Korea police,COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from a rooming house in Kita-ku, Kyoto. He returned to his hometown in Gifu on New Year's Day, and then his part-time job called his parents' home asking if he had returned home. Her luggage and money were still at the lodgings, and there were signs that she withdrew her deposit on February 13. | |||||||||
| 305 | 3/1979 | SHUJI INADA | M | 32 | Himeji City,Hyogo Pref. | Akahi City,Hyogo Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing near Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture on the way home from work | |||||||||
| 306 | around 4/1979 | NAOTERU YANAI | M | 21 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | SHIrakawa City,Fukushima Pref. | univercity student | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing from an apartment in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture | |||||||||
| 307 | 4/4/1979 | KENJI KAWAI | M | 32 | 6/2/1947 | Ryuo-cho(now Kai City),Yamanashi Pref. | Ryuo-cho(now Kai City),Yamanashi Pref. | former company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In the evening of the day of his disappearance, he caused a personal injury accident to a mother and her two children on a street in Yamanashi Prefecture (the accident was not life-threatening), returned home after taking the victims to the hospital, and left home in his car after being informed that the police were on their way and went missing. | |||||||||
| 308 | 8/4/1979 | T．O．(Private) | M | 47 | 25/12/1931 | Yamagata Pref. | Yamagata Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]The day before his son's junior high entrance ceremony, he left home saying, “I'm just going to the beach,” and never returned. | |||||||||
| 309 | 14/4/1979 | YOSHIMASA WADA | M | 26 | 19/11/1952 | Shinjyuku Ward, Tokyo | Ｆutｓu City,Hiroshima Pref. | Formerly worked at a supermarket | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He resigned from a supermarket in Fuchu City, Hiroshima Prefecture, in March, and disappeared on April 13. When his family called him with a notepad, he came to Tokyo on the same day, stayed overnight at an acquaintance's house in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, and left early in the morning of the next day, April 14, leaving his luggage behind. | |||||||||
| 310 | 6/5/1979 | KAZUSHI KAI | M | 26 | 5/2/1953 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Kyushu Area | Restaurant cooks | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He went out to a coffee shop near his dormitory in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, and disappeared without leaving it. After that, a person who appeared to be a member of the dormitory called his parents' house in Kyushu once every day around noon asking if Kazushi had returned home, but he did not give his name and never called again. | |||||||||
| 311 | 6/1979 | HIROKO ABE | F | 21 | Higasiyamato City,Tokyo | Fussa City,Tokyo | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left workplace in Higashiyamato City, Tokyo, and is now missing | |||||||||
| 312 | 30/6/1979 | MASAZO MIKUNI | M | 20 | Fukuoka City,Fukuoka Pref. | Fukuoka City,Fukuoka Pref. | univercity student | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]While riding a motorcycle home from an acquaintance's house in Jonan Ward, Fukuoka City, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 313 | 2/7/1979 | NATSUO TSUTSUMI | M | 31 | Kokubunnji City, Tokyo | Kokubunnji City, Tokyo | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing since leaving home | |||||||||
| 314 | 10/8/1979 | SATSUKO TERASHIMA | F | 19 | 26/7/1960 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Totsuka Word, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | bank employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Went to a fireworks display in Kamakura for a social gathering at the bank where she worked, and the party broke up at 10:00 p.m. She and her co-workers split up at Kamakura station and took a train. She was on her way home by bus from Totsuka station when she went missing. The next day, her second bag was found in the grass near her home in Totsuka Ward. | |||||||||
| 315 | 10/1979 | KYOICHI HAMANO | M | 44 | Kmamoto City,Kumamoto Pref. | Kobe City,Hyogo Pref. | Cook | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After telling her brother in Kumamoto City that she was “going to Fukuoka,” she parted ways and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 316 | 10/10/1979 | NOBUYUKI WATANABE | M | 20 | Saitama Pref. | Koyabe City, Toyama Pref. | Air Self-Defense Force officer | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]While enrolled at a technical school in Saitama Prefecture as a meteorological observer for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, he went missing after leaving his dormitory in the afternoon of the day he disappeared and never returned. | |||||||||
| 317 | 11/1979 | TATSUMITSU KANEDA | M | 26 | 16/12/1952 | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Former Ramen restaurant staff | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After graduating from a nursing home in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, he worked at a ramen restaurant “Raidai” in Kobe City. He later introduced Minoru Tanaka No.286, a fellow alumnus of the facility, to the same ramen restaurant, and the two began working together. The owner of the restaurant is Yongdae Han, who was responsible for Ms. Tanaka's abduction. After receiving a letter from Ms. Tanaka inviting him to come to Austria, he disappeared. | |||||||||
| 318 | 8/12/1979 | AKIRA ISHIGURO | M | 25 | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | University staff | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Last seen in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and has been missing since that day. | |||||||||
| 319 | 18/12/1979 | KENJI YAMADA | M | 30 | 22/1/1949 | Takaoka City, Toyama Pref. | Takaoka City, Toyama Pref. | office worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He went missing while driving to work in his car, a Mitsubishi Jeep, at the drum factory in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, where he worked. A week later, the car was left on the seaside of Koshinaka Kokubu Station in the city with the keys in the ignition | |||||||||
| 320 | 28/12/1979 | MITSUGI HIRAMOTO | M | 37 | Yanai City,Yamaguchi Pref. | Yanai City,Yamaguchi Pref. | Newspaper distributor operator | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving home on his motorcycle to deliver newspapers, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 321 | around1980 | KENZO KOZUMI | M | 46 | 10/1933 | Itabashi Ward, Tokyo | Itabashi Ward, Tokyo | factory worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In 1979, he changed his family register to an apartment in Nishi Arai, Adachi-ku. An agent calling himself “Pak” impersonated Mr. Kozumi (backstabbing), and this man is wanted internationally for violation of the Passport Law and other charges. Later, the National Police Agency issued an international warrant for Park as the perpetrator of the abduction of Mr. and Mrs. Hasuiike. | |||||||||
| 322 | 1/1980 | REI YOSHIKAWA | M | 26 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Absent from work without permission and now missing. | |||||||||
| 323 | around 1/1980 | KENJI ABIRU | M | 34 | 16/2/1945 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Heavy truck driver | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Since his brother last saw him in the summer of 1975, there has been no contact..In January 1980, the police informed the family that a car was parked near Nanko, Osaka, and when the father and sister went to the house in Minato Ward, Osaka, they found an old driver's license. | |||||||||
| 324 | 13/1/1980 | TOSHIHITO KOKUBO | M | 32 | 1/8/1947 | Maizuru City, Kyoto Pref. | Toba City,Mie Pref. | Chief Engineer of Cargo Ship | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]1980 Departed from the port of Onsenzu, Shimane Prefecture, and arrived at the port of Maizuru on the morning of January 13. After lunch that day, he left for the city with a colleague. At 7:00 p.m., he called his home in Toba City, Mie Prefecture, “from the side of a pachinko parlor. He then ate and drank at a snack bar, left the bar at 11:00 p.m., and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 325 | 26/1/1980 | MASAYOSHI SHIROTORI | M | 53 | 26/10/1926 | Fushiki-cho, Toyama Pref. | Fukushima Pref.. | Seaman First Class Engineer for large cargo ships | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After drinking with fellow sailors in the cafeteria, he said he would “go back to the ship first,” and the cafeteria clerk gave him a ride to the port where the ship was anchored and then disappeared. | |||||||||
| 326 | 4/2/1980 | SEICHI KUMAKURA | M | 30 | 7/11/1949 | Aizu-wakamatsu City, Fukushima Pref. | Aizu-wakamatsu City, Fukushima Pref. | maki-e artist | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]They both disappeared after going from their home in Aizuwakamatsu to a relative's house in Gosen City, Niigata Prefecture with a friend and his own car. They did not go to the relative's house. The car has not been found. | |||||||||
| 327 | 29/3/1980 | KIYO FUJIKURA | F | 12 | 29/4/1967 | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | Directly before secondary school enrolment | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]When the mother left for work at 5:30 p.m., the children were seen off at the front door. When the mother returned home at 2:00 a.m., the door was locked, but both children were gone, along with their younger brother Yasuhiro No.334. | |||||||||
| 328 | 29/3/1980 | YASUHIRO FUJIKURA | M | 11 | 13/3/1969 | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | elementary school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared at the same time as sister No. 333 | |||||||||
| 329 | 21/5/1980 | SHIGEKI HONDA | M | 26 | 21/8/1953 | Hakodate City, Hokkaido | Hokkaido | Telephone related services | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He took the Seikan Liaison Boat to Tokyo to find a job, but left his luggage on the boat and disappeared. For the next eight months, silent phone calls were made to his home and to his brother. | |||||||||
| 330 | around 5/1980 | KAORU MATSUKI (acknowledged by Japan Government) | M | 26 | 13/6/1953 | Spain. | Kagoshima Pref. | graduate student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while studying in Spain; No.337 Ms. Ishioka sent a letter to her parents' home and was found living in Pyongyang with No.371 Ms. Keiko Arimoto. The North Korean government submitted the remains to Japan, but they belonged to several different people.. | |||||||||
| 331 | around 5/1980 | TORU ISHIOKA (acknowledged by Japan Government) | M | 22 | 29/6/1957 | Europe | Hokkaido Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared during a trip to Europe to find an opportunity to become a bread and cheese maker; in 1988, a letter arrived at his home in Hokkaido, Japan, revealing that he was living in Pyongyang with No.336 Matsuki and No.371 Arimoto. Eyewitness testimony by Charles Jenkins in his book. | |||||||||
| 332 | 17/6/1980 | TADAAKI HARA (acknowledged by Japan Government) | M | 42 | 2/8/1937 | Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Pref. | Osaka-Pref. | Chinese restaurant staff | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Ri San Shun Works at a store owned by the chairman of the Korean Association of Commerce and Industry in Osaka Prefecture, a Korean resident in Japan. Abducted by Shin Kwang-soo. Later, Shin pretended to be Ms. Hara to obtain official identification. North Korea says that he married No.287 Yaeko Taguchi and died in 1986/7, but this is unreliable. | |||||||||
| 333 | 10/1980 | FUMIO YAJIMA | M | 40 | Saitama Pref. | Matsumoto City,Nagano Pref. | Welder | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared after visiting his nephew's home in Saitama Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 334 | 1/1981 | TOYOSHIGE SUMIMOTO | M | 30 | Himeji City,Hyogo Pref. | Himeji City,Hyogo Pref. | former company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture by car | |||||||||
| 335 | 10/1/1981 | MOTOTSUGU IZUMIMOTO | M | 34 | Tadaoka-cho,Osaka Pref | Tadaoka-cho,Osaka Pref | factory worker | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home by car to go to work and went missing. | |||||||||
| 336 | 8/2/1981 | HITOMI YUBA | F | 14 | Kashihara City,Nara Pref. | Kashihara City,Nara Pref. | junior hischool student | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]While babysitting her 8-year-old brother, she went out after receiving a call from a middle-aged woman and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 337 | 3/1981 | KIYOSHI AKADA | M | 22 | Nagaoka City, Nigata Pref. | Kagoshima Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After returning from his parents' home in Kagoshima to his university dorm in Takaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, He called his mother and then disappeared. | |||||||||
| 338 | 16/3/1981 | NAOKO NAGAO | F | 20 | 25/10/1960 | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Sapporo City, Hokkaido | Driving school office | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while leaving home for work | |||||||||
| 339 | 5/1981 | MITSUO NISHIMURA | M | 18 | 26/5/1962 | Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Miyahara-cho,Kumamoto Pref. | Worked for a housing company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while moving from a company dormitory to a factory in Yamaguchi City. | |||||||||
| 340 | 20/6/1981 | NORIKO NAGAMOTO | F | 16 | 2/10/1964 | Sukumo City, Kochi Pref. | Sukumo City, Kochi Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after her uncle saw her at a bus stop in Sukumo and called out to her. She said, "I'm going to Sukumo." | |||||||||
| 341 | 20/6/1981 | TOSHIYUKI ADACHI | M | 18 | 16/1/1963 | Tsurugi-cho, Ishikawa Pref. | Hakusan City,Ishikawa Pref. | hotel-worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left a friend's house with a co-worker and a woman in a car and both disappeared. 8 days later, a faltering female voice, sounding like a child's, called and said, “Toshiyuki has been captured. Mr. Yasushi Jimura's eyewitness testimony in Pyongyang. | |||||||||
| 342 | 3/7/1981 | TOSHITAKA KOBAYASHI | M | 33 | Oamishirasato-cho,Chiba Pref. | Oamishirasato-cho,Chiba Pref. | carpenter | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while walking to an apartment 2-3 minutes from work | |||||||||
| 343 | 13/7/1981 | KAZUHIRO KUDO | M | 18 | Morioka City,Iwate Pref. | Morioka City,Iwate Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]A person left their home in Iwate Prefecture saying they were “meeting a friend” and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 344 | 13/7/1981 | NAOMI TAKEDA | F | 18 | Takizawa city,Iwate Pref. | Takizawa city,Iwate Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home at 9 a.m. to “meet a friend” in Iwate Prefecture and went missing | |||||||||
| 345 | 14/7/1981 | SHUNJI UEDA | M | 49 | 20/11/1931 | Hino City、Tokyo | Hino City、Tokyo | English translations of medical information | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He worked for a publishing company and worked as a translator. After retiring, he worked as an English translator for medical-related fields. After receiving a phone call from someone on the day of his disappearance, he left his home in Hino City and disappeared. After his disappearance, several booklets praising Kim Jong-il were sent to a junior colleague at work. | |||||||||
| 346 | 18/11/1981 | KAYOKUMA MINAMI | M | 58 | Yoron Town, Oshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Maritime Area | Yoron-cho,Kagosima Pref. | Agriculture | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]At noon, he went fishing in a rowboat from the beach near his home and went missing. | |||||||||
| 347 | after18/11/1981 | TATSUO YOKOYAMA | M | 29 | 6/9/1952 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Nagasaki Pref. | Worked at a plant subcontracted by a heavy equipment manufacturer | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after being contacted by his parents in Nagasaki to send his family register for employment at the U.S. Yokosuka Air Base. | |||||||||
| 348 | 12/1981 | SOHACHIRO KIHARA | M | 29 | Bryne City, Norway | Engaru-cho,Hokkaido | chicken sexer | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while on a trip to Norway to obtain certification as a male/female chick breeder. | |||||||||
| 349 | 5/12/1981 | YOICHI TSUJI | M | 32 | 6/2/1949 | Kuwana City, Mie Pref. | Kuwana City, Mie Pref. | high school teacher | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was on vacation from the 4th to the 7th, and when he did not show up at the school where he worked on the 8th, his family was contacted to confirm his disappearance; a concert ticket for the concert in Nagoya on the 19th was left behind. | |||||||||
| 350 | 5/2/1982 | KIYOE SUZUKI | F | 23 | 27/3/1958 | Fukuroi City, Shizuoka Pref. | Fukuroi City,Shizuoka Pref. | office worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She disappeared after her mother and sister saw her standing with a man on a street near her home around 20:30. Her car was locked and left in an empty lot next to the road with items that she may have bought on her way home. | |||||||||
| 351 | 3/1982 | KOUICHI KAWASHIMA | M | 23 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Hamamatu City,Shizuoka Pref. | University graduate, pre-employment | North Korea Police,COMJAN |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On his way back to his parents' house in Hamamatsu after graduating from college and loading his belongings from his rooming house into his car, he took the train to his parents' house and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 352 | 2/4/1982 | HIROMI SAKAI | F | 22 | 22/10/1959 | Shinjyuku Ward, Tokyo | Suginami ward,Tokyo | beauty school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from her apartment. She informed her mother that she was moving to Suginami Ward, but cancelled the move a few days later and told her mother that she would stay here a little longer. She did not inform the real estate agency about the move. | |||||||||
| 353 | early 8/1982 | EICHI MURATA | M | 31 | Fujiidera City,Osaka Pref. | Fujiidera City,Osaka Pref. | Dry cleaning store clerk | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the apartment. | |||||||||
| 354 | 18/9/1982 | MASAFUMI NAGAYAMA | M | 23 | 7/1/1959 | Higashi-yamato City, Tokyo | Higashi-yamato City, Tokyo | Worked at Tokyo Metropolitan Government | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while leaving his home, saying he was going to work | |||||||||
| 355 | 25/10/1982 | KAZUMITSU FUKUMOTO | M | 27 | Iruma City,Saitama Pref. | Iruma City,Saitama Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving the company dormitory to go jogging | |||||||||
| 356 | 28/10/1982 | FUKUMI NODA | M | 47 | 5/11/1934 | off shore Rebun Island, Hokkaido | Shimane Pref. | Fishing Boat Operator Radio Operator | North Korea Police,COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He had left the fishing port of Mihonoseki, Shimane Prefecture, on his own boat, and on the day of his disappearance was on Rebun Island, Hokkaido, fishing for squid as the leader of a fleet of 10 boats. The sea was calm, and he was in radio communication with his colleagues until around 10:30 p.m. when he disappeared. The next morning, the boat was found unmanned with the lights on and in operating condition. | |||||||||
| 357 | 14/12/1982 | YASURO FUJIYAMA | M | 22 | 13/1/1960 | Osaka Pref. | Kumamoto Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after a letter arrived at his parents' house in Kumamoto from Osaka, where he was residing. For about a year after his disappearance, suspicious phone calls continued to be made to his parents' home. | |||||||||
| 358 | 1/1983 | YOSHIO IITO | M | 44 | Sagamihara City,Kanagawa Pref. | Sagamihara City,Kanagawa Pref. | Sheet metal worker | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home | |||||||||
| 359 | around 3/1983 | SHOICHIRO TAKEDA | M | 48 | Nigata City,Nigata Pref. | Nigata City,Nigata Pref. | unemployed | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After being sighted in Niigata City, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 360 | around 3/1983 | TETSUYA HARA | M | 20 | 22/5/1962 | Okinawa Pref. | Edogawa Ward,Tokyo | unknown | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Traveled to Okinawa with a friend, stopped at an acquaintance's house, and then disappeared while out alone. | |||||||||
| 361 | 10/4/1983 | TOSHIKAZU HAMABATA | M | 23 | 10/9/1959 | Tsuruga City, Ishikawa Pref. | Okinawa Pref. | Inspection and maintenance of nuclear power plant equipment | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After completing a routine inspection of the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant, he loaded tools at the company warehouse in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama at the end of March and went to Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture again with his colleagues. disappeared after taking a cab out of his dormitory before a routine inspection of the Tsuruga Power Plant on April 10. | |||||||||
| 362 | around 5/1983 | OSAMU SHIBAYAMA | M | 21 | Nagoya City Aichi Pref. | Nagoya City Aichi Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Did not report to work and went missing | |||||||||
| 363 | 19/6/1983 | SETSUO KUROKI | M | 19 | Hyuga City, Miyazaki Pref. | Hyuga City, Miyazaki Pref. | factory worker | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After driving a friend to Hyuga Station in Miyazaki Prefecture, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 364 | around 8/1983 | KEIKO ARIMOTO (acknowledged by Japan Government) | F | 23 | 12/1/1960 | Denmark. | Kobe City,Hyogo Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On August 9, when she was scheduled to return home from her language study in London, she received a telegram from her parents saying, “I can find a job, I can send home. In 1988, the family of Toru Ishioka, a resident of Sapporo, Hokkaido, contacted the family and learned that Keiko was married to Mr. Ishioka and living in North Korea. | |||||||||
| 365 | 17/10/1983 | SHIGEYUKI MATSUMOTO | M | 48 | 25/7/1935 | off shore Maizuru City, Kyoto Pref. | Maizuru City, Kyoto Pref. | Fisheries cooperative staff Fisheries | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while out at sea in Maizuru City, Japan, on a fishing trip for crab gill nets. An unmanned vessel was found adrift and an extensive search was conducted, but nothing was found. | |||||||||
| 366 | 24/10/1983 | HARUE SASAKI | F | 39 | Towada City,Aomori Pref. | Towada City,Aomori Pref. | Nurse | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In the morning, she left home saying, “I'm going to work.” After noon, the Seikan Ferry contacted her family, stating, “Ms. Harue Sasaki has gone missing after leaving her driver's license and other items on board.” She has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 367 | 20/11/1983 | SHINICHIRO MIKAMI | M | 18 | 4/4/1965 | Asahikawa City, Hokkaido | Asahikawa City, Hokkaido | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared while taking the bus from the bus stop in front of his house, saying, "I'm going to the library." It was Sunday and the library was closed. | |||||||||
| 368 | 28/12/1983 | KAZUHIRO YAMAUCHI | M | 18 | 5/10/1965 | Sakai City, Osaka Pref. | Sakai City, Osaka Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared on the night or early morning of the 28th, apparently leaving his home. He was preparing to take the university entrance exam. | |||||||||
| 369 | 1984(S59)2/17 | MICHIYO TERANISHI | F | 21 | Kishiwada City,Osaka Pref. | Kishiwada City,Osaka Pref. | bank employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving work early at a workplace in Kishiwada City, the person went missing. | |||||||||
| 370 | 1984(S59)3 | YUKARI MIYAKE | F | 20 | Shibuya Ward,Tokyo | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Junior college student | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After participating in a photo exchange event with travel companions in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, she went missing. | |||||||||
| 371 | 16/3/1984 | KEIKO IJIRI | F | 23 | 23/10/1960 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | waitress at a snack bar | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving her mother's snack bar late at night, she went out for a drink with her co-workers and disappeared after getting out of a cab in front of her house at around 4:00 a.m. the next day. | |||||||||
| 372 | 2/4/1984 | MICHIE KAWAI | F | 20 | 18/12/1963 | Takefu City(now Echizen City), Fukui Pref. | Takefu City(now Echizen City), Fukui Pref. | Worked for a textile company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She had just started working for a textile company the day before her disappearance. She worked that morning, went home for lunch, and then disappeared while driving to work. Her car was never found. | |||||||||
| 373 | after 5/1984 | MAKOTO TANEDA | M | 34 | 1/2/1950 | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Kagoshima Pref. | Chief of Yakiniku Restaurant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from apartment in Kyoto City | |||||||||
| 374 | 9/5/1984 | AKIRA MATSUZAWA | M | 18 | Takaoka City, Toyama Pref. | Takaoka City, Toyama Pref. | factory worker | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Takaoka City | |||||||||
| 375 | 4/6/1984 | MIHO YAMAMOTO | F | 20 | 3/3/1964 | Kofu City, Yamanashi Pref. | Kofu City, Yamanashi Pref. | university entrance examination student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while leaving home on a moped, saying I'm going to the library. The library was closed that day. Later, the motorcycle was found near the south exit of Kofu Station, and the bag was reported to have fallen on the Arahama beach in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. Silent phone calls to her home in Kofu City continued for about four years. Defector Gwonhyeog testified that he saw her several times in Unit 5454 around 1993, and there were other sightings. | |||||||||
| 376 | 21/7/1984 | KOICHI HIROTA | M | 30 | 21/1/1954 | Tottori Pref. | Amagasaki City, Hyogo Pref. | Worked for Japan Automobile Federation | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while driving out of his home in Amagasaki, Japan, to climb Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, alone. | |||||||||
| 377 | 8/1984 | MAMORU KAMAKURA | M | 22 | Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Kawasaki City | |||||||||
| 378 | 28/8/1984 | TERUJI IHARA | M | 26 | 10/4/1958 | Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo | Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo | Worked for a building facility management company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After delivering blueprints to a client with a colleague, he left his colleague at Kanda Station and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 379 | 24/9/1984 | AKIHIRO HANADA | M | 18 | 5/4/1966 | Otake City, Hiroshima Pref. | Otake City, Hiroshima Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving a note at home saying he was going fishing. A week later, his bicycle and fishing gear were found abandoned on Oshima Ohashi Bridge in Yamaguchi Prefecture, more than 30 km away. | |||||||||
| 380 | 10/1984 | MASAKI MATSUSHIMA | M | 34 | Ena Station Front, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture | Suginami ward,Tokyo | part-time job | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After stopping at Ena Station in Gifu Prefecture, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 381 | around 4/1985 | SAIKI SHIMOJI | M | 22 | 10/7/1962 | Tokyo | Okinawa Pref. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around April, he disappeared after calling his parents' home in Okinawa. | |||||||||
| 382 | 30/4/1985 | JUNKO IMAZU | F | 27 | 28/5/1957 | Fukaya City, Saitama Pref. | Fukaya City, Saitama Pref. | nursery school teacher | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the same day, she went to the Driver's License Examination Center in Omiya City to pick up her motorcycle license. Around 7:00 p.m., she disappeared while calling her colleague at the dormitory, saying, "I'm going to take the bus home now. Around 9:00 p.m. on the same day, a resident of a house between the nearest bus stop and the dormitory heard a dog barking violently, and the next morning, Ms. Imazu's shoes were found in a field, as if they had been unnaturally thrown away | |||||||||
| 383 | 17/5/1985 | HISASHI HIRAMINE | M | 35 | Yao City,Osaka Pref. | Yao City,Osaka Pref. | civil engineering worker | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Yao City and remains missing | |||||||||
| 384 | 7/1985 | YOSHINORI KUMAGAI | M | 25 | Arakawa Ward,Tokyo | Arakawa Ward,Tokyo | Newspaper delivery person | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Arakawa Ward | |||||||||
| 385 | 9/7/1984 | SEICHI TANIGASAKI | M | 22 | 26/1/1962 | Shinminato City, Toyama Pref. | Shinminato City, Toyama Pref. | Interior store clerk | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while driving away, saying he was going to a nearby bathhouse. | |||||||||
| 386 | 29/8/1985 | MASARU ITO | M | 42 | 4/5/1943 | Asahi City, Chiba Pref. | Asahi City, Chiba Pref. | Agriculture. Head of Shimousa Melon Association | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after returning from a trip to a fruit and vegetable market in Tokyo with three other officers of a melon cooperative, where they left the other officers at the station and took a cab back to their home area. | |||||||||
| 387 | 16/9/1985 | YOSHIKO KONYA | F | 23 | 16/2/1962 | Kushiro City, Hokkaido | Kushiro City, Hokkaido | Barber and beauty school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She was living alone in a student apartment in Kushiro City, but her family confirmed her disappearance when they were notified by the school that she was absent. | |||||||||
| 388 | 10/1985 | YUKIO TANAKA | M | 21 | Futyu City,Tokyo | Futyu City,Tokyo | university student | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while walking to university | |||||||||
| 389 | 10/1985 | TOMOHIDE MAEDA | M | 56 | Takamatsu City,Kagawa Pref. | Fukuoka Pref. | Cook | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After relatives saw him off at the ferry terminal in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, he disappeared. | |||||||||
| 390 | 1/10/1985 | YOSHINORI KIMOTO | M | 22 | 18/5/1963 | Hirosaki City, Aomori Pref. | Hokkaido | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Returned to his parents' home in Hokkaido in August, returned to his apartment in Hirosaki City, where the university is located, on September 2, and is believed to have disappeared from his apartment on October 1. | |||||||||
| 391 | 22/11/1985 | KANAKO HAYASHI | F | 25 | 7/9/1960 | Ota Ward, Tokyo | Ota Ward, Tokyo | Company employee, fluent in English and French | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after informing her employer that she had a cold and would be absent on the 21st and 22nd. Unconfirmed, but there are reports that she is in North Korea. | |||||||||
| 392 | 4/12/1985 | MIWA AKITA | F | 21 | 25/1/1964 | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Kawanishi City, Hyogo Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After taking morning classes at a university in Kobe, She had lunch with a friend in the cafeteria and parted with her friend near the school gate after 1:00 pm. After 8:00 p.m., She received a phone call at home saying that she would stay at her friend's house. However, the next morning after 8:00 a.m., a call came from the Kinosaki Police Station in Hyogo Prefecture, located on the Japan Sea coast, saying that Miwa's bag had been found at Bentenhama in Takeno-cho, and her disappearance was discovered. The bag contained an unused express ticket issued by Osaka Station and other unnatural circumstances. | |||||||||
| 393 | 1/1986 | HIROMASA WATANABE | M | 23 | Nagoya City Aichi Pref. | Sanjyo City,Nigata Pref. | Postal worker | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Failed to report to work at the workplace in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture and subsequently disappeared | |||||||||
| 394 | 11/1/1986 | HIROAKI KAMETANI | M | 23 | 14/7/1962 | Neyagawa City, Osaka Pref. | Neyagawa City, Osaka Pref. | Company employee Precision machine assembly | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He returned home around 2:00 a.m. the night before, but left home around 7:00 a.m. the next morning as usual. The company informed him that he did not show up for work and he has been missing ever since. Until then, he had been tardy and unexcused. | |||||||||
| 395 | 1/2/1986 | TOSHIKAZU NISHIDA | M | 29 | Fukuoka City,Fukuoka Pref. | Fukuoka City,Fukuoka Pref. | unemployed | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home by car saying “I'm going to a friend's place” and disappeared without a trace | |||||||||
| 396 | 2/3/1986 | SYUYA TANIGUCHI | M | 47 | Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Pref. | Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Pref. | Port workers | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home saying “I'm going to the Port Employment Security Office” and has since gone missing | |||||||||
| 397 | 29/10/1986 | MASAYUKI SATO | M | 27 | 11/12/1958 | Nagoya City Aichi Pref. | Nagoya City Aichi Pref. | Worked for a pharmaceutical company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]While eating a boxed lunch purchased at a restaurant in his room, he went out into the cold, hail-streaked city and disappeared. He left his wallet, driver's license, and all other personal belongings in his room. | |||||||||
| 398 | around3/ 1987 | RYO FURUKAWA | M | 22 | 4/11/1964 | Spain. | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Studied briefly in England to study English; disappeared after March 1987 after leaving for Spain | |||||||||
| 399 | 22/1/1987 | KATSUHIKO TAKAHASHI | M | 27 | 5/7/1959 | Kushiro City, Hokkaido | Kushiro City, Hokkaido | teacher at a school for the deaf | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He lived in the school's faculty housing. He went home after watching an ice hockey game with his colleagues at the school where he worked the night before and often did not show up for work in the morning. The school had left his paycheck bag from the previous day intact, and the new car he had just bought was still in the faculty housing! | |||||||||
| 400 | 2/1987 | SEIGYOKU CHIN | F | 23 | 12/5/1963 | Sakai City, Osaka Pref. (Taiwanese) | Taiwan | Junior college student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She came to Japan from Taiwan in 1984 and was a student at a junior college in Osaka City until March 1986, and her disappearance was confirmed in February 1987 when she did not return to Japan for her grandfather's funeral in Taiwan. She had visited the Osaka office of the Association for East Asian Relations in Osaka City on February 12 to apply for an extension of his visa. | |||||||||
▼ Missing Persons Registry No.401 – 500 Toggle
| No. | Date of Disappearance | Name | Sex | Age | Date of Birth | Area of Disappearance | Residence at the Time | Occupation | Abducting Country / Status |
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| 401 | 15/3/1987 | YOSHIYUKI NISHIYASU | M | 21 | 27/6/1965 | Ayabe City, Kyoto Pref. | Kobe City,Hyogo Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Drove with a friend to Maizuru, Kyoto, and disappeared after parting ways with her friend in front of Ayabe Station on the Sanin Line on the way home. His car has not been found. There is a photo that appears to have been taken in North Korea. Suspicious phone calls were made to his home in Hyogo Prefecture after his disappearance. | |||||||||
| 402 | 15/3/1987 | MANAMI LI | F | 14 | Nagoya City, Aichi Pref. | Nagoya City, Aichi Pref. | Junior high school student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home in Nagoya City | |||||||||
| 403 | 6/6/1987 | MIKONO ONOUE | F | 20 | 26/11/1966 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Restaurant Work | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After finishing her part-time job at a snack bar, she went to another snack bar with a co-worker, then left the car with the co-worker at around 3:00 a.m., leaving Ms. Onoe in the passenger seat with the engine running. The next morning, the car fell into the sea from the quay at Hakata Port in Fukuoka City, and when it was pulled out, the car was unoccupied and the passenger window was open. On the morning of the same day, a caller claiming to be from Fukuoka's Rinko Police Department told him that the car had just fallen into the water, but it is questionable how the phone number of the Ogami family was obtained. The owner of the car was a colleague, and her herself had just obtained her driver's license and had little or no driving experience. | |||||||||
| 404 | 20/6/1987 | NAOMI NEMOTO | F | 15 | 15./1/1972 | Fujishiro-cyo(now Toride City), Ibaraki Pref. | Fujishiro-cyo(now Toride City), Ibaraki Pref. | senior high school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared on her way home by bicycle after tennis club activities at school. Disappeared leaving her bicycle and school bag about 400 meters away from her home. | |||||||||
| 405 | 25/7/1987 | SHIGEJIRO MINAMI | M | 47 | Koshigaya City,Saitama Pref. | Koshigaya City,Saitama Pref. | self-employed | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He said he was going out to collect payments and left in his car, never to be seen again. | |||||||||
| 406 | 31/8/1987 | YUKIHIRO OKAMOTO | M | 32 | 14/1/1955 | Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Pref. | Matsudo City, Chiba Pref. | Ramen restaurant manager | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He drove to Yokosuka City to fish after closing his ramen restaurant the day before, but disappeared when he did not return at the opening time the next day. His car and fishing gear were left near the drainage outlet of TEPCO's Yokosuka Power Plant. | |||||||||
| 407 | 10/1987 | SYUJI AZUMA | M | 24 | 24/1/1963 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Kyushu area | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]As a result of a traffic accident, his left wrist is deformed in the shape of a curve between the left wrist and elbow. A real estate agent at a residence in Yokohama City contacted his parents' house in Kyushu about rent arrears, confirming his disappearance. The room looks as if he suddenly left. After his disappearance, there were several silent phone calls to his parents' house, and around 1993, a female voice repeated in faltering Japanese, “Son ill. | |||||||||
| 408 | 1/10/1987 | KOJI SAKAI | M | 17 | Taiwan | Futtu City,Chiba Pref. | Ironworks worker | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]A tourist went missing after leaving their hotel in Taiwan during their stay. | |||||||||
| 409 | 11/1987 | KYOGEN AKI | M | 37 | Amagasaki City,Hyogo Pref. | Amagasaki City,Hyogo Pref. | company executive | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After dining and drinking with an acquaintance at an izakaya in the city, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 410 | around 12/1987 | HIROYUKI NIINO | M | 21 | Minamikawachi City,Osaka Pref. | Minamikawachi City,Osaka Pref. | univercity student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing from boarding house | |||||||||
| 411 | around 11or 12/1987 | MASAKAZU SASAKI | M | 37 | 15/8/1950 | Omiya City, Saitama Pref. | Omiya City, Saitama Pref. | Private tutors and tutoring | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After speaking with the landlord of the apartment at the end of November, he went missing; in December, the landlord contacted him and his family learned of his disappearance. Cash, bankbook, and driver's license were left behind. | |||||||||
| 412 | 27/12/1987 | KYOKO NISHIMURA | F | 25 | 18/12/1962 | Yuda-onsen ,Yamaguchi Pref. | Yamaguchi City ,Yamaguchi Pref. | Japanese clothing store clerk | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After a year-end party at Yuda Onsen with a colleague from her office, they had a second party at a nearby restaurant. After that, they both disappeared. | |||||||||
| 413 | 5/1/1988 | SHINYA NAKATAKE | M | 21 | Fukuoka City,Fukuoka Pref. | Fukuoka City,Fukuoka Pref. | univercity student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from boarding house | |||||||||
| 414 | 6/3/1988 | MASAYA TANEKO | M | 27 | 26/1/1961 | Osaka Pref. | Tokyo | Company employee, accountant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was absent from work without permission, so a colleague went to the company dormitory to check on him and learned of his disappearance. Laundry was hanging out to dry and valuables and other items were still there. He had a dentist appointment that day and had plans to go skiing with a friend on another day | |||||||||
| 415 | around 4/1988 | KAZUYOSHI KASAMATSU | M | 32 | Nagoya City, Aichi Pref. | Ichinomiya City,Aichi Pref. | self-employed | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After calling relatives in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture to say “I'm in Nagoya now,” the person went missing. | |||||||||
| 416 | 24/4/1988 | ATSUKI SHIMAZAKI | M | 20 | Obihiro City,Hokkaido | Obihiro City,Hokkaido | company emploee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after going for a drive with a friend around 9 p.m. | |||||||||
| 417 | 9/5/1988 | NOBUAKI EBARA | M | 28 | 12/9/1969 | Shiraoka-cho, Saitama Pref. | Shiraoka-cho, Saitama Pref. | Agricultural. Electrician, amateur radio certified. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In December of the previous year, he had retired from an automobile sales company and was helping his parents with farming. On the same day, he disappeared while leaving his home, saying, “I'm going to Omiya (now Saitama City) once in a while to see a movie. | |||||||||
| 418 | 17/7/1988 | YUKIO HAYASHIDA | M | 53 | 2/12/1934 | off shore of Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Pref. | Takanabe-cho,Miyazaki Pref. | Construction company manager | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Departed from the mouth of the Oyodo River in Miyazaki City at around 4:00 a.m., where he was moored on the Kyoyo Maru, a recreational fishing boat he owns with Mizui No. 420. After that, they disappeared. They continued to search from the sea and the air, but could not find even a piece of the ship. They had a personal radio but had not been contacted. | |||||||||
| 419 | 17/7/1988 | AKIRA MIZUI | M | 52 | 12/3/1936 | off shore of Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Pref. | Miyazaki City, | Real estate company manager | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Same as Hayashida No.419 | |||||||||
| 420 | 2/8/1988 | TOMIYASU YAKURA | M | 36 | 23/11/1951 | on the surface of the ocean of Tottori Pref. | Tottori Pref. | Fisherman Former precision machine tool manufacturer employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He had been working for a top Japanese manufacturer of machining centers (precision machine tools) and also provided technical guidance overseas until three years before his disappearance, when the company went bankrupt and he became a fisherman. The fishing boat was later found drifting with a seized engine, and there were traces of a collision with another boat on the port forward side, with paint on it. | |||||||||
| 421 | 19/8/1988 | KOUJI WADA | M | 31 | 1957-05-20 00:00:00 | Nango-cho, Miyazaki Pref. | Nango-cho, Miyazaki Pref. | Fisherman | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was scheduled to go skipjack fishing the next day, but went to a snack bar he knew the night before, hit it off with a fisherman he met there, went to an udon restaurant together before dawn, and then drove the man home before disappearing. Mr. Wada does not drink alcohol. A North Korean defector testified that he saw someone who looked like him in Pyongyang around 1993-96, although he was not sure. | |||||||||
| 422 | 31/8/1988 | KEIJI SAIKI | M | 27 | OsakaCity,Osaka Pref. | OsakaCity,Osaka Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]unknown | |||||||||
| 423 | 10/1988 | HIROYUKI TANAKA | M | 20 | Chigasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | Chigasaki City,Kanagawa Pref. | vocational school student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving their home in Chigasaki City | |||||||||
| 424 | 11/1988 | HIROSHI YASAKA | M | 33 | Joetsu City,Nigata Pref. | Joetsu City,Nigata Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture, saying he was going fishing at Naoetsu Port and has not been seen since. | |||||||||
| 425 | 20/11/1988 | TAKASHI ISHIZAKA | M | 29 | 27/12/1958 | Setagaya Ward, Tokyo | Setagaya Ward, Tokyo | Worked as an engineer at the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), Food Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After making a presentation at a food hygiene conference held in Shizuoka Prefecture on November 17-18, he returned to the Ministry of Health and Welfare dormitory in Tokyo in the evening of the same day, and even took in the morning newspaper on November 20, but disappeared thereafter. | |||||||||
| 426 | 24/11/1989 | MINORU SAKIYAMA | M | 24 | 24/5/1964 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Okinawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]His employer contacted his family home in Okinawa, stating that He was absent without leave,When his family went to check on him at his apartment, they found a washing machine in the process of being washed and his bag and eyeglasses still in his room. | |||||||||
| 427 | 30/11/1988 | TOKINORI GOTO | M | 31 | Onoda City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Onoda City, Yamaguchi Pref. | Company employee (electrical field) | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home by car and went missing | |||||||||
| 428 | 28/12/1988 | MITSUHIRO MURAKAMI | M | 26 | Ogasa-gun,Shizuoka Pref. | Ofunato City,Iwate Pref. | former company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After resigning from a company in Shizuoka Prefecture, he went missing while returning to his family home in Iwate Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 429 | 1/1989 | YUTAKA KIKUCHI | M | 55 | Sado City,Nigata Pref. | Sado City,Nigata Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving a restaurant in Sado City | |||||||||
| 430 | 1/1989 | TAKASHI KOMANO | M | 24 | Kashiwazaki City,Nigata Pref. | Kashiwazaki City,Nigata Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left his home in Niigata Prefecture by car, saying he was “going to the barber shop,” and disappeared. His car was later found in Mikuni Town, Fukui Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 431 | 23/2/1989 | MITSUO HIDAKA | M | 30 | 16/8/1958 | off Shore of Suwase Island, Kagoshima Pref. | JPN | Harbor construction workers Fishing boatmen | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On February 23, he rented a small fishing boat and went trolling alone. At around 2:00 p.m., another fishing boat called out to Mr. Hidaka while he was anchored at sea, and he did not return home until after sunset. After a search, the boat was found offshore, but the fishing line was still hanging down, the boat had run out of fuel and was drifting, and Mr. Hidaka was nowhere to be found. For one or two years after her disappearance, silent phone calls continued to be made to my father's house, and around midnight to 1:00 a.m., a tutting sound could be heard along with noises like TV noise | |||||||||
| 432 | 7/3/1989 | SHINYA MATSUOKA | M | 4 | 13/4/1984 | Sadamitsu-cho ,Tokushima Pref. | Ibaraki Pref. | child | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]The day before, he and his family had come to Tokushima Prefecture to attend his grandmother's funeral. He stayed at a relative's house that night, and returned on the morning of March 6 after taking a walk around the area with his family, but Shinya did not return with him. His father immediately went outside, but he was not there as he should have been. There was a massive mountain hunt by police, firefighters, and local citizens, but no clues, no witnesses, no physical evidence of any kind. | |||||||||
| 433 | 12/4/1989 | MASAZUMI ANDO | M | 50 | Western Waters of Kagoshima District, | Kagoshima Pref. | fisherman | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]A fisherman went missing after setting out to sea from Suwanose Island, Kagoshima Prefecture. His boat was discovered at night. | |||||||||
| 434 | 22/6/1989 | HIDEOKI SAKAMOTO | M | 27 | 14/7/1961 | Minato Ward, Tokyo | Kurashiki City,Okayama Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On June 22, after leaving work in the evening at his company in Minato-ku, Tokyo, he withdrew 100,000 yen from the bank; on June 25, his family learned of his disappearance when the company contacted his parents in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture to inform them that he was scheduled to go to the Niihama Plant in Ehime Prefecture on a business trip but did not appear. His travel bag, driver's license, and health insurance card were left in his room at the company's dormitory in Tokyo. | |||||||||
| 435 | 8/1989 | KENSAKU YAMAKAWA | M | 59 | Nagaoka City,Nigata Pref. | Nagaoka City,Nigata Pref. | Doctor | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left home saying he was going for a hike and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 436 | 23/8/1989 | ETSUKO KATO | F | 41 | 3/1/1948 | Owari-asahi City, Aichi Pref. | Owari-asahi City, Aichi Pref. | registered nurse | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Drove her family from home and went AWOL from the doctor's office where she worked as a nurse in the morning. Disappeared in the evening with a phone call to her family telling them to cook and eat dinner. She left her bag, which she always carries with her, and her nursing license at home, and there is no evidence that she withdrew her bank deposit. | |||||||||
| 437 | 26/8/1989 | KATSUMI YAJIMA | M | 24 | 4/4/1965 | Abashiri City, Hokkaido | Omiya City, Saitama Pref. | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On August 21, while traveling in Hokkaido for a week, he disappeared after leaving Koshimizu Gensho-en Youth Hostel in Abashiri City on August 26. | |||||||||
| 438 | 9/1989 | TADAO MIURA | M | 34 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | unemployed | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left his home in Yokohama City saying, “I'm just stepping out,” and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 439 | 12/11/1989 | KENICHI NISHIMOTO | M | 48 | Ichikawa City,Chiba Pref. | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the company dormitory in Ichikawa City where he had been staying on a business trip | |||||||||
| 440 | 27/12/1989 | MITSUGU YAMASHITA | M | 39 | 5/7/1950 | Echizen-cho, Fukui Pref. | Echizen-cho, Fukui Pref. | blue-collar worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In the early morning of the 27th, he left his house saying “I'm going fishing” and disappeared. His car was found near the beach, but it was locked. On his way down to the beach, he found a box of fishing bait and a lunch box, but his fishing rod was not found. | |||||||||
| 441 | 1/1990 | YOSHIFUMI TAKEUCHI | M | 47 | Jyoetsu City,Nigata Pref. | Jyoetsu City,Nigata Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left home saying he was going fishing and has since gone missing. | |||||||||
| 442 | 7/2/1990 | KIMIE KAWATA | F | 23 | 15/8/1966 | Toyoura-cho(now Shimonoseki City) ,Yamaguchi Pref. | Toyoura-cho(now Shimonoseki City) ,Yamaguchi Pref. | Worked in a sewing factory | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving work in the evening of the same day in her own car. Two weeks later, her family found her car abandoned in a parking lot along Route 191. The doors were locked, but inside the car, the floor was stained with mud and weeds, and a razor with blood stains and receipts issued in Nagato and Izumo cities were left behind, which was not typical of Kimie, who usually likes to keep the car clean. Several suspicious phone calls were made to several acquaintances. | |||||||||
| 443 | 3/1990 | MINAKO SATO | F | 17 | Hatano City,Kanagawa Pref. | Hatano City,Kanagawa Pref. | high school student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He attended a part-time high school, but disappeared after parting ways with a friend at Hadano Station on his way home from night school. | |||||||||
| 444 | 8/1990 | YUKIKO MORIYAMA | F | 25 | Sanjo City,Nigata Pref. | Kamo City,Nigata Pref. | unknown | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After being spotted at Higashi-Sanjo Station in Sanjo City, Niigata Prefecture, she went missing. | |||||||||
| 445 | 4/8/1990 | MIWAKO IKENAGA | F | 38 | Yakushima-cho,Kagosima Pref. | Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Pref. | Junior high school teacher | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing on a hiking trail on Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture | |||||||||
| 446 | 10/1990 | TETSUYA KUDO | M | 36 | Sugunami Ward,Tokyo | Sugunami Ward,Tokyo | unemployed | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After vacating the apartment in Suginami Ward, he disappeared. | |||||||||
| 447 | 10/1990 | ETSUHITO SUZUKI | M | 30 | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After vacating the apartment in Suginami Ward, he disappeared. | |||||||||
| 448 | 13/12/1990 | KEIKO SHIMIZU | F | 22 | 9/12/1968 | Ihara City, Okayama Pref. | ,Okayam Pref. | agricultural cooperative employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After leaving her office in Yoshi-cho, Okayama Prefecture in the evening, she was scheduled to stop by another job, but did not show up, although she called to say she would be a little late. Her family found her car around 10:00 p.m. that night, but she had left her work documents behind. She was scheduled to get married in March. | |||||||||
| 449 | 28/3/1991 | YUMI OMASA | F | 23 | 5/4/1967 | Gyonju, Repubric of Korea | Iyo City,Ehime Pref. | Just graduated from college, scheduled to be a university researcher in the spring. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She visited Korea on a graduation trip, stayed at the Gyeongju Youth Hostel in Korea, left her luggage on the morning of the 28th, and then disappeared. About a month after her disappearance, there were several silent phone calls to her parents' home in Ehime Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 450 | 28/3/1991 | SATOSHI KAWAKAMI | M | 14 | Aira-Cho,Kagoshima Pref. | Aira-cho,Kagoshima Pref. | junior high school student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Kazuyuki Sueyoshi No. 452 and another person went missing after setting out in a boat from Onkawa, Aira Town, Kagoshima Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 451 | 28/3/1991 | KAZUYUKI SUEYOSHI | M | 14 | Aira-Cho,Kagoshima Pref. | Aira-Cho,Kagoshima Pref. | junior high school student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Satoshi Kawakami No. 451 and another person went missing after setting out in a boat. | |||||||||
| 452 | 12/4/1991 | TAKUMA SATO | M | 31 | Kunitachi City,Tokyo | Rikuzentakada City,Iwate Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Missing in Kunitachi City | |||||||||
| 453 | 22/4/1991 | ETSUKO SASAKI | F | 27 | 6/12/1963 | Urawa City(now Saitama City) , Saitama Pref. | Urawa City(now Saitama City) , Saitama Pref. | bank employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She was off work that day, but disappeared while leaving her home at the usual time to go to work. A North Korean defector, Gwonhyeog, saw her in 1994, and another defector testified that she looked similar to a Japanese woman who taught him Japanese customs around 1995. | |||||||||
| 454 | early 5/1991 | NOBUKO OMIYA | F | 36 | Kyoto City,Kyoto Pref. | Kyoto City,Kyoto Pref. | housewife | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from his home in Kyoto City | |||||||||
| 455 | 19/7/1991 | MASATO ONODERA | M | 24 | 15/2/1967 | Furano City, Hokkaido | Noboribetsu City,Hokkaido | hotel-worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left Furano station with a rental car for a night or two to go to the Furano Lavender Festival, but disappeared after spending the night in the car. A few days later, the car was found in a parking lot in the middle of Mt.Tokachi | |||||||||
| 456 | 22/9/1991 | KIYOKO MORIMOTO | F | 18 | 25/11/1972 | Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Pref. | Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while leaving her home, saying she was going to a bookstore | |||||||||
| 457 | 15/10/1991 | KUNIHIKO TACHIBANA | M | 19 | 3/9/1972 | Numazu City, Shizuoka Pref. | Numazu City, Shizuoka Pref. | vocational school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was attending a vocational school in Tokyo, but returned to his home in Numazu City that day. The night before, he received a phone call at his home from a male voice in his 40s, and he himself took the call for a long time. After hanging up the phone, he left his home and disappeared without leaving. After his disappearance, there were 4-5 suspicious phone calls in the middle of the night with all kinds of mechanical noises like “zzzz. | |||||||||
| 458 | 3/11/1991 | CHIAKI FUKUYAMA | F | 18 | 16/9/1973 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | High school student working part-time at an amusement park | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In the evening, she left her home for a part-time job. After work, she parted ways with a work friend at the station and went missing. She had promised to call her boyfriend around 10:00 p.m., but she never came home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 459 | 10/11/1991 | YASUKO HOIZUMI | F | 55 | 25/8/1936 | Nissin City, Aichi Pref. | Nissin City, Aichi Pref. | former nurse | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared around 5:00 p.m. while leaving home to go shopping at a nearby convenience store. She was looking forward to it because her was rebuilding her house. After her disappearance, there were silent phone calls to her home two to three times a month. | |||||||||
| 460 | 12/1991 | SUSUMU HONMA | M | 47 | Sado City,Nigata Pref. | Sado City,Nigata Pref. | Construction Industry | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left his home in Sado City saying he was “going fishing” and has been missing ever since. | |||||||||
| 461 | 15/1/1992 | EMIKO MATSUHASHI | F | 26 | 15/5/1965 | Noshiro City, Akita Pref. | Kitaakita City, Akita Pref. | Worked for a clothing manufacturing company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while leaving her home in her car. Car was later found near the beach. | |||||||||
| 462 | 6/5/1992 | KAORU TOJO | F | 25 | Chiba City,Chiba Pref. | Chiba City,Chiba Pref. | domestic helper | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Chiba City lightly dressed and has been missing ever since | |||||||||
| 463 | 12/6/1992 | KYOKO TAKEYAMA | F | 56 | 20/12/1935 | Hamamasu-mura Hokkaido | Sapporo City Hokkaido | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She went into the mountain forest to pick bamboo shoots in the morning and disappeared. She was an experienced mountain climber. We searched extensively, but found nothing left behind. | |||||||||
| 454 | late 8/1992 | KENICHRO KANAI | M | 22 | Ageo City,Saitama Pref. | Ageo City,Saitama Pref. | domestic helper | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving home | |||||||||
| 465 | 12/9/1992 | NORIO SASAGAKI | M | 18 | 4/3/1974 | Miura City, Kanagawa Pref. | Miura City, Kanagawa Pref. | preparatory school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was attending a prep school in Yokohama. He told his mother in the morning that he might go to the prep school today, but stayed home until around noon. Then he disappeared while his family was out. | |||||||||
| 466 | around 11/1992 | MAKOTO IKEHATA | M | 33 | Kyoto City,Kyoto Pref. | Kyoto City,Kyoto Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his home in Kyoto City | |||||||||
| 467 | around 11/1992 | MASAMICHI TANAKA | M | 44 | 28/6/1948 | Narashino City, Chiba Pref. | Chiba City, Chiba Pref. | construction worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On June 7, he left the apartment where he was staying for the last time, saying “I'm going to work now. On June 2, he called his sister in Kagoshima Prefecture and told her that he would leave the hospital tomorrow and go to Ibaraki Prefecture to renew his driver's license.On June 11, the Narashino Police Station in Chiba Prefecture contacted his sister in Kagoshima Prefecture, telling her to come get his car because it had been left unattended, confirming his brother's disappearance. | |||||||||
| 468 | around 7/1993 | MARIKO TANAKA | F | 27 | Isigaki City, Okinawa Pref. | Isigaki City, Okinawa Pref. | housewife | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving her home in Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture | |||||||||
| 469 | 15/7/1993 | RYUJI SAKAEBARA | M | 5 | Amami City,Kagoshima Pref. | Amami City,Kagoshima Pref. | child | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Near the mouth of the Ariya River near Ōkuma Fishing Port, Amami City | |||||||||
| 470 | 31/8/1993 | MASAKI OGAWA | M | 25 | 20/8/1968 | Shibuya Ward, Tokyo | Kanagawa Pref. | Part-time job at a racehorse training school in Hokkaido | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]From April to August of the same year, he worked part-time at a racehorse training school in Hokkaido, resigned in August, and stayed at an acquaintance's house in Shibuya Ward. Disappeared from there. | |||||||||
| 471 | 10/1993 | MASAYA OZEKI | M | 21 | Toshima Ward,Tokyo | Toshima Ward,Tokyo | univercity student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from his home in Toshima Ward | |||||||||
| 472 | 3/2/1994 | CHUKICHI NAKAMASU | M | 50 | 10/7/1943 | on the surface of the ocean of east of Philippines. | Okinawa Pref. | Captain of a longline tuna fishing boat | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On February 3, the captain of a tuna longline fishing boat was lost while operating in waters east of the Philippines. The crew of seven, including Captain Nakamasu, have not found the vessel or people. | |||||||||
| 473 | 14/2/1994 | HISAKO TOMIKAWA | F | 35 | 18/2/1958 | Ishigaki City, Okinawa Pref. | Ishigaki City, Okinawa Pref. | housewife | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She visited a driving range to meet an acquaintance that day and disappeared while leaving her child at a local supermarket. Unconfirmed, but a defector reported that she resembles a woman he saw in North Korea. | |||||||||
| 474 | early 3/1994 | SHINZO YOSHII | M | 26 | France | Higashiosaka City,Osaka Pref. | part-time job | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After traveling to France and calling his family, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 475 | 29/9/1994 | TAMAKI HIDA | F | 22 | Osaka Pref. | Osaka Pref. | domestic helper | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving their home in Osaka City | |||||||||
| 476 | 15/2/1995 | YOSHIMI KATO | M | 51 | 22/11/1943 | Kamiyaku-cho, Kagoshima Pref. | Kagoshima Pref. | Harbor Work Barge Crew | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]The ship had been in Miyanoura Port since February 4 for port construction. The day before his disappearance, he and his fellow crew members went out for a drink in Miyanoura town and returned to the ship at midnight. All that was left was the jacket he had worn the night before, which contained his wallet, and his shoes. I searched the coastline and the seabed, but could not find him. | |||||||||
| 477 | 26/3/1995 | RUMI UEMURA | F | 23 | 14/7/1971 | Mihara-cho(now Sakai City), Osaka Pref. | Mihara-cho(now Sakai City), Osaka Pref. | domestic helper | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She went out to walk her dog from her home around 6:00 a.m. that morning and disappeared, leaving the front door immediately after taking the dog home. She had no bag or purse with her. | |||||||||
| 478 | 11/5/1995 | KATSUTOSHI FUKUMOTO | M | 22 | 16/6/1972 | Torahime-cho(now Nagahama City), Shiga Pref. | Takasago City, Hyogo Pref. | After helping in the fishing industry, he started working for a company in May. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He had brain tumor surgery when he was 18 years old, and tubes were inserted under his skin from the top of her head through the back of his ears; on May 11, he got a job at a company in Shiga Prefecture that was introduced in a job ad, and suddenly disappeared on his first day at work in the company dormitory. | |||||||||
| 479 | 19/6/1995 | HIROAKI KOMIYAMA | M | 30 | 22/11/1964 | Sakashiro-cho, Nagano Pref. | Sakashiro-cho, Nagano Pref. | factory worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared while leaving his home by car on the same day. Worked at Chikuma City, Nagano Prefecture | |||||||||
| 480 | 7/1995 | KIYOTERU KAMIYAMA | M | 21 | Akisima City,Tokyo | Akisima City,Tokyo | univercity student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in Tokyo saying he was “attending a driver's license training camp in Yamagata” and has since gone missing | |||||||||
| 481 | 28/8/1995 | MASAKI MATSUNAGA | M | 30 | 14/1/1965 | Ashoro City, Hokkaido | Zentuji City, Kagawa Pref. | forwarding or transportation industry | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He was traveling around the country as a carrier, and disappeared before dawn on August 28, leaving a note at home saying that he was going away for 10 days to 2 weeks for work. A sealed envelope postmarked Hokkaido on September 14 was sent to his home. In December, the car was found in Tomakomai City, Hokkaido. | |||||||||
| 482 | 24/8/1995 | TAKAFUMI SOGAHATA | M | 22 | 19/6/1953 | Kushiro City, Hokkaido | JPN | College student part-time tutors | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After finishing his part-time job, he drove to a coffee shop in Kushiro City with his friends from cram school, dropped off his younger students, and drove to his lodgings, where he disappeared with his car. | |||||||||
| 483 | 29/8/1995 | KOJI SHIRAISHI | M | 24 | Australia Sydney | Hiroshima Pref. | Cook | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After finishing summer vacation in Japan, he returned to Sydney but failed to report for work at the Japanese restaurant where he was employed. He disappeared, leaving behind a bag containing souvenirs from Japan and other items in his room. | |||||||||
| 484 | 5/11/1995 | MIYOKO IWAMOTO | F | 36 | 20/12/1958 | Sadowara-cho(now Miyazaki City), Miyazaki pref. | Sadowara-cho(now Miyazaki City), Miyazaki pref. | Construction company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left her home by car with the promise of going for a drive in the Omote-Uga area with the person she was going to marry. She left her car in the parking lot of the Phoenix Wildlife Park and went out with her partner's car. However, she changed her plans and parted ways with her partner around noon at the parking lot. After that, she disappeared. The car was later found with the keys still in the ignition at Ishizaki Beach, and whiskey, which was supposedly sent by the partner, was scattered inside the car. | |||||||||
| 485 | 14/1/1996 | TAKASHI TAKEUCHI | M | 38 | 20/1/1957 | Kiyokawa-mura, Kanagawa Pref. | Kochi.Pref. | Worked for a security company Mobile crane license Special radio technician | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He returned from the U.S. in September 1995 and had been working in the dormitory of a security company since December 1. He had rented a car for the consecutive holidays of January 12 and 13, but on the 13th, he received a call asking him to extend the rental period by one day. At 8:00 a.m. on the morning of the 14th, we found a receipt for a full tank of gasoline. | |||||||||
| 486 | 24/2/1996 | MASAAKI YAMAUCHI | M | 23 | Kishiwada City,Osaka Pref. | Izumi City,Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving a restaurant in Kishiwada City by car | |||||||||
| 487 | 9/3/1996 | TAKU KANEDA | M | 19 | Beijing, China | Yamaguchi City,Yamaguchi Pref. | univercity student | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the student dormitory in Beijing, China, where he was studying abroad | |||||||||
| 488 | 5/4/1996 | HIROSHI TANAKA | M | 35 | 11/6/1960 | Echizen-cho, Fukui Pref. | Kyoto City, Kyoto Pref. | Worked for a building maintenance company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On April 10, his car was found along the coast of present-day Minami-Echizen-cho, Fukui Prefecture. Also, a payment slip for a fine for a speeding violation in Fukui Prefecture on the morning of April 5 arrived at his parents' house later that day, signed by him. | |||||||||
| 489 | 14/4/1996 | MASAHIRO ANZAI | M | 27 | 19/9/1968 | Nagoya City, Aichi Pref. | Oyama City, Tochigi Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]It was Sunday, and after a conversation with the dorm manager in the morning, he went out in his car as if he was going shopping and then disappeared. When he returned home for a holiday weekend in May, he called his parents' home in Tochigi Prefecture. | |||||||||
| 490 | 22/8/1996 | YUJI KANATA | M | 36 | 22/7/1960 | Kinki Region | Sakai City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka Prefectural Office employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]In July, he went to the U.S. to obtain his MBA qualification, but a letter dated August 19 notified his parents' home in Sakai that he had become ill and would return to Japan for treatment. He has not been heard from since then. It was later discovered that he returned to Japan on August 20 at Kansai Airport. Although there are records of cash withdrawals at several ATMs in Osaka and other locations, he disappeared without contacting his parents' home. | |||||||||
| 491 | 1996-09-09 00:00:00 | TOMOJIRO MATSUYAMA | M | 21 | 9/10/1974 | Machida City,Tokyo | JPN | unknown | North Korea Police. |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]unknown | |||||||||
| 492 | 27/9/1996 | MARIKO TANABE | F | 27 | 14/11/1968 | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | Clothing store clerk | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She disappeared between a clothing store on Hondori, Naka-ku, where she worked, and her home. Her mother called her every morning, but she did not answer the phone on the morning of the 28th. | |||||||||
| 493 | 10/10/1996 | HISAO KAWADA | M | 46 | sea area Yoron-cho , Kagoshima Pref | Yoron-cho,Kagoshima Pref. | Construction worker | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He told his wife, “I'm going fishing,” boarded his own boat, the Daini Kawada Maru, at Yoronjima's Chakako Port, and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 494 | 14/3/1997 | ERI HAMAI | F | 18 | Nonoichi City,Ishikawa Pref. | Kanazawa City,Ishikawa Pref. | Food service workers | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his workplace in Nonoichi City | |||||||||
| 495 | 5/1997 | SADAO SHIBAZAKI | M | 65 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Pachinko parlor employee | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after losing contact with family. | |||||||||
| 496 | 15/5/1997 | EMIRI OSHIRO | F | 22 | Uruma City,Okinawa Pref. | Uruma City,Okinawa Pref. | Dental Hygiene Assistant | North Korea Police. |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left home saying she was going out to play and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 497 | 29/7/1997 | TAKEO SATO | M | 25 | 30/11/1971 | Funabashi City, Chiba Pref. | Funabashi City, Chiba Pref. | System Engineer | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the day of his disappearance, he made a long phone call at the company dormitory in the morning. In the afternoon, he made a cash withdrawal at an ATM near JR Funabashi Station (confirmed by security camera). 3 p.m. He went to a doctor's office across the street from the dormitory. He has already applied for paid leave for this purpose. | |||||||||
| 498 | 18/8/1998 | SAYURI KATO | F | 33 | 5/6/1964 | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. | Company employee accountant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left her home in light clothing and disappeared. The next day her mother called her home and could not get through, and she had gone AWOL. She was married with three children. | |||||||||
| 499 | 9/11/1997 | EICHI WATANABE | M | 42 | 17/4/1955 | Imagane-cho, Hokkaido | JPN | Construction Operator Construction Laborer, Vocational Training Instructor, Candidate Support Worker | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared in the evening from the construction site of Hanaishi Tunnel. 3 days search by police and fire brigade, but nothing was found. 12/7, a car was found along the river. No fingerprints were found. Before his disappearance, he had called his family to say that the work would be finished in about a week. | |||||||||
| 500 | 5/4/1998 | HIROSHI KIKUCHI | M | 20 | 22/11/1977 | Nagano City, Nagano Pref. | Saku-City Nagano Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He started working at a car dealership. During training for new employees, he disappeared after asking his roommate to buy juice for him. He was so nearsighted that he could not walk without his glasses, but his glasses were left behind. 1998-2001: Suspicious phone rings several times. | |||||||||
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| No. | Date of Disappearance | Name | Sex | Age | Date of Birth | Area of Disappearance | Residence at the Time | Occupation | Abducting Country / Status |
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| 501 | 6/4/1998 | MINAKO NAKAMURA | F | 18 | 18/9/1979 | Nagaoka City, Nigata Pref. | Nagaoka City, Nigata Pref. | preparatory school student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She was scheduled to go out to pay the entrance fee for a prep school in the morning, but disappeared. A note saying she would borrow 30,000 yen at a later date and the remaining money were found in her room. When contacted by the place where she purchased her boarding pass, a middle-aged woman with a husky voice identified herself as “Minako Nakamura” and prepared to leave the airport. Unconfirmed but there are reports that she is in North Korea. | |||||||||
| 502 | 12/5/1998 | MASATOSHI HAYASI | M | 23 | 20/1/1975 | Echizen-Cho, Fukui Pref. | Gihu Pref. | graduate student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared at 10 p.m. from his laboratory at Gifu University on his way home by car; his car was found at Umeura Beach, Echizen-cho, Fukui Prefecture, on the 14th. He was scheduled to meet with his graduate school guidance staff on the 13th, and had also been offered a job. | |||||||||
| 503 | 7/6/1998 | SHIGEMI KATO | F | 34 | Matsuyama City.Ehime Pref. | Matsuyama City.Ehime Pref. | housewife | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 504 | 29/6/1998 | TOSHIRO MIYAWAKI | M | 36 | Goto City,Nagasaki Pref. | Goto City,Nagasaki Pref. | civil servant | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After eating breakfast at work, he went missing. | |||||||||
| 505 | 4/8/1998 | ＨIROKUNI SHIBUYA | M | 34 | 1/3/1964 | Hakuba-mura, Nagano Pref. | Atsugi-City Kanagawa Pref. | Kanagawa Prefectural Tax Office | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He told his family that he would return home on the night of the 5th or the morning of the 6th, and left by car for mountain climbing, staying at Hakuba mountain lodge on the 2nd and 3rd. | |||||||||
| 506 | 24/11/1998 | NORIKO TSUJIDE | F | 24 | 3/11/1974 | Ise City, Mie Pref. | Mie Pref. | local journalist | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]After finishing overtime work at her place of employment after 11:00 p.m., she left the company in her car and disappeared. The next day, her car was found in the parking lot of a non-life insurance company near her office. There are unconfirmed reports that she is in North Korea. | |||||||||
| 507 | 3/12/1998 | AYAKO MATSUI | F | 22 | 14/9/1976 | Mito City, Ibaraki Pref. | Ibaraki Pref. | laboratory technician | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the 15th, a car was found in the parking lot of Kamisu Seaside Park Multipurpose Plaza. It was later discovered that she had refueled at the Ibaraki-machi gas station on National Route 6 on the morning of the 4th (her signature remained), and had driven through Choshi City, Togane City, Sosa City, etc. | |||||||||
| 508 | around 23/2/1999 | MASAO UMEMOTO | M | 57 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 509 | 27/4/1999 | KANICHI YAMAMOTO | M | 60 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Self-employed, construction industry | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]13cm scar on the back of the left hand. He said he was going to Shiga and would return after the holidays, then left and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 510 | 8/1999 | EISUKE NOZOE | M | 68 | Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Pref. | Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Pref. | Former university staff member | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He said, “I'm going out to get some fresh air,” and then disappeared. | |||||||||
| 511 | 20/12/1999 | TSUTOMU KUSUMOTO | M | 52 | 4/12/1947 | Arakawa Ward, Tokyo | Arakawa Ward, Tokyo | Construction management of construction works | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He disappeared after telling a friend that he was going to work in the Kansai area. Often could not be contacted for ODA-related work overseas. At his parents' house, there are silent phone calls. | |||||||||
| 512 | 23/12/1999 | ISAO SAKAI | M | 29 | 5/5/1970 | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | Kamogawa City, Ciba Pref. | Milk and liquor transport company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He worked in Hiroshima on a business trip until the day before, and after sending two colleagues home that day, he disappeared without showing up at the company where he was traveling. It was later discovered that he had withdrawn cash twice at an ATM in Aki Takata City, 17 km from where he was staying. | |||||||||
| 513 | 6/1/2000 | MASATSUGU HAMASAKI | M | 25 | 2/8/1974 | Hino-City Tokyo | Nagasaki Pref. | Acoustic specialist Electronic device design engineer | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Since he was absent without permission from the opening ceremony at his place of work on the day of the event and again the next day and the day after that, the personnel manager inspected his room at the company dormitory and found that both his work place and room were as usual. He withdrew cash at Tokyo Station that morning and at an ATM in Hakodate in the afternoon. Suspicious phone calls were made to his parents' home twice in about a year after his disappearance. | |||||||||
| 514 | 7/3/2000 | CHIAKI SAKAGAWA | F | 23 | 7/10/1976 | Ono-mura(now Hirono-Cho), Iwate Pref. | Hirono-cho,Iwate Pref. | gas station attendant | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She left her work around 4:00 p.m. and drove away and disappeared. The next day, her car was found at a small fishing port in the town of Taneichi, in the opposite direction from her home. The volume of the car stereo was turned down lower than usual. | |||||||||
| 515 | 12/9/2000 | JUNKO SATO | F | 28 | 28/2/1972 | Switzerland | Fuｃｈu City,Tokyo | ex-company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]She traveled to Europe with a colleague from her office from July 4, and the colleague returned to Japan after three weeks. On September 12, she disappeared after having breakfast with a Japanese hostel-mate at a youth hostel in Zellmatt, Switzerland. 4 silent phone calls were made to her parents' home in September, and a voice on the phone sounded like it was not in Japanese. | |||||||||
| 516 | 9/9/2000 | MAKIKO MIZUMURA | M | 31 | Asahi City,Chiba Pref. | Ota Ward,Tokyo | unknown | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from the hospital where he was admitted. | |||||||||
| 517 | 16/12/2000 | MASARU SAKAE | M | 79 | Oshima-gun,Kagoshima Pref. | Oshima-gun,Kagoshima Pref. | Fisherman | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]A fisherman went missing after setting out alone from Ryugo-cho On the 16th, a radio message was received stating, “I am at Oshima Shinsone. I am returning to port now.” | |||||||||
| 518 | late at night 13/2/2001 | SATOSHI MATUMURA | M | 23 | 28/1/1978 | Okayama-City,Okayama Pref. | Okayama-City,Okayama Pref. | Worked at a construction company | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He left around 11:00 on the 13th to go out to play, but returned home around midnight. After his parents went to bed, he went out again and disappeared. He had a hard job and wanted to quit. Cash and a bank book were left in his room. 3 silent phone calls were made from December 2001 to February of the following year. | |||||||||
| 519 | 18/6/2001 | TAMEYUKI AMANO | M | 55 | Shingu City,Wakayama Pref. | Shingu City,Wakayama Pref. | Taxi driver | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home in a private vehicle around 4 a.m. and went missing. | |||||||||
| 520 | 20/6/2001 | YUSUKE OKAGI | M | 21 | Fujinomiya City,Shizuoka Pref. | Fujinomiya City,Shizuoka Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Left home and disappeared. | |||||||||
| 521 | 13/9/2001 | MIKA GOTO | F | 30 | 13/7/1971 | Koto Ward, Tokyo | Koto Ward, Tokyo | domestic helper | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after sending her father away. | |||||||||
| 522 | 3/12/2001 | KAZUYA SAWABE | M | 34 | 15/5/1967 | Miyazu City, Kyoto Pref. | Tango City,Kyoto Pref. | chef | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the 3rd, he did not return from work at night and disappeared. 23rd, a car was found in the mountains in Miyazu City on the night of the 23rd. Residents in the area heard the car leaving around 2:00 a.m. and then heard an explosion. Later that day, a wallet was found 100 meters away from the burned car. | |||||||||
| 523 | 22/12/2001 | DAISUKE KAGAMI | M | 23 | 17/8/1978 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Anan City,Tokushima Pref. | Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared from company dormitory at night. He was scheduled to return to his parents' home in Tokushima at the end of the year based on an appointment with a friend and a conversation with his boss. Security camera confirmed that he returned to the dormitory at 2:00 p.m. on the same day. Text message sent at 9:00 p.m. and room locked at 10:18 p.m. Recorded. | |||||||||
| 524 | 25/2/2002 | YUJIRO INADA | M | 20 | 26/4/1981 | Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Pref. | Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Pref. | University students Part-time job | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Father confirms he is at home at 9:30 that day. He called from his employer at 11:00 p.m. to say he had been absent from his part-time job without permission; he withdrew money from his bankbook four times from 16th to 25th; on 21st, he came home late at night to have dinner with his high school swim team friends, but it was later found that he had not seen them. | |||||||||
| 525 | 3/3/2002 | NAOKI MIYAMOTO | M | 24 | 9/11/1977 | Arakawa Ward, Tokyo | Arakawa Ward, Tokyo | Part-time cleaning service | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Around 3:30 p.m., he told his family he wouldn't be needing dinner tonight and left, only to go missing.On the morning of the 5th, the Japan Coast Guard at Shin-Moji Port in Fukuoka Prefecture called to say that he had left his luggage in the cabin of a ferry departing from Tokyo at 19:10 on the 3rd and that he could not be found. The ferry arrived at Shin-Moji Port at 5:00 a.m. on the morning of the 4th. | |||||||||
| 526 | 30/4/2002 | YASUHIRO NAGASHIMA | M | 24 | 26/7/1978 | Kokubunji-cho, Tochigi Pref. | Kokubunji-cho, Tochigi Pref. | Paramedical Nurses Hospital Attendance | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Working at a hospital in Oyama City; father heard him say to mother around 19:00 that he would return a rental video, that he would go home and eat dinner, and that he would go to the telephone at 20:00 right now. He disappeared after that. he made a silent phone call late at night on May 15. on the evening of October 14, a caller claiming to be from the Kokubunji City Office (at that time) told him that someone who looked like Yasuhiro had been taken to the hospital. when my sister called the hospital to confirm, he said he would call back. 30 minutes later, she called and the announcement said that the hospital was currently not in use. when she called back, the announcement said that the hospital was currently not in use. | |||||||||
| 527 | 7/5/2002 | YUSUKE WADA | M | 25 | 30/1/1977 | Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Pref. | Shimane Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]On the 6th, he went back to his parents' house in Shimane and attended a friend's wedding, then returned to Hiroshima and called his mother. 7 days later, he was informed that he had been absent without leave. There were traces of payment for expressway tolls and gasoline by credit card from the 7th to the 8th. | |||||||||
| 528 | 20/7/2002 | YOSHIKO TOMIYAMA | F | 45 | Ishigaki City,Okinaea Pref. | Ishigaki City,Okinaea Pref. | Restaurant Management | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after dining at a restaurant. | |||||||||
| 529 | 13/11/2002 | MAI TSUNODA | F | 20 | 12/2/1982 | Tokyo or Yamanashi Pref. | Tokyo | university student | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]When her brother woke up at home, she was gone. Father was working alone in Nagano, and mother was also in Nagano for an operation. She also planned to go to Nagano on the 14th and had already arranged a ticket. Mother caught a cell phone signal in Yamanashi Prefecture, but were unable to contact her. | |||||||||
| 530 | 1/2/2003 | NARUKI OKITA | M | 42 | 14/4/1960 | Osaka City, Osaka Pref. | Hiroshima Pref. | Shipping Business Manager. 5th Class Marine Engineer. 4th Class Small Boat Engineer. | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Owns a cargo ship. Half of the cargo was lifted at Sakai Senboku Port in Sakai City, and arrived at the Osaka Steel Wharf at 3:30 p.m. The vessel was not seen at the time of lifting the cargo for 3 days. He went to two of his favorite taverns in Osaka and was dropped off at a sluice gate near the wharf. 3 days later, when it was time to unload his cargo, he did not appear. 5 days in the water, divers, coast guard, water police, relatives and acquaintances searched for him, but he could not be found. | |||||||||
| 531 | 8/9/2003 | YASUSHI MIZUSHIMA | M | 39 | 20/4/1964 | Warabi City, Saitama Pref. | Maizuru City,Kyoto Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]He works for a company in Tokyo. He had been absent due to illness for a week prior to his disappearance, but had been making daily phone calls to the company. 8 days without a phone call, his manager and co-workers went to his residence and discovered his disappearance. | |||||||||
| 532 | 5/10/2003 | ITARU TAKAMI | M | 42 | 11/10/1959 | Amagasaki City, Hyogo Pref. | Tokyo | Design Engineer (Osaka Industrial Design Center, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labor) | North Korea Police, COMJAN |
| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]The project, developed in collaboration with a professor from Osaka City University since the previous year, had just been adopted for an Osaka Prefecture initiative and launched in October..After 3:00 p.m. that day, he withdrew cash from a bank in front of Hankyu Tsukaguchi Station. 6 days later, he went missing from his company in Osaka City without permission. | |||||||||
| 533 | 4/1/2005 | D．.N．. | M | 23 | Indonesian waters | JPN | Third Mate | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]A liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier sailing through Indonesian waters en route to Australia has reported a crew member missing. | |||||||||
| 534 | 4/2/2005 | MUNEYUKI TANABE | M | 22 | Turuga City,Fukui Pref. | Wakasa-cho Fukui Pref. | company employee | North Korea Police, |
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| [Circumstances at time of disappearance, testimony, etc.]Disappeared after leaving his workplace in Tsuruga City at 5:30 PM in his private vehicle. | |||||||||