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Fusako Sano (佐野 房子 [1], Sano Fusako, also known by the pseudonym Sachiko Yamada (山田 幸子 [2], Yamada Sachiko)) (born November 28, 1980 [1]) is a Japanese woman who was kidnapped at age nine by Nobuyuki Satō (佐藤 宣行, Satō Nobuyuki), [3] and held in captivity for nine years and two months from November 13, 1990, to January 28, 2000.
In the 7th century, a fisherman named 'Wakegorō' (和気五郎) from Gogo island found a 13-year-old girl inside an utsuro-bune drifting at sea. He brought her to land, where she told him that she was the daughter of the Chinese emperor and that she had been forced to flee to escape her stepmother.
[15] [20] There were concerns that the incident could result in less Japanese tourism in the city. Of the 60,000 Japanese who had come to Yellowknife to see the northern lights since 2008, she was the first one ever to be reported missing, according to the country's consulate in Calgary. [4] On November 4, however, the RCMP called off the search.
Date Person(s) Age when disappeared Missing from Circumstances Refs. 14 February 2000 Asha Degree: 9 Shelby, North Carolina, U.S. : Degree was last seen in the early morning hours of 14 February 2000, while running into a woodlot off North Carolina Highway 18 on a rainy and very windy day.
The Sea Bird, which also went by other names, was a merchant brig that, after a Honduras voyage and then grounding in Rhode Island at Easton's Beach in either 1750 or 1760, had lost its longboat. No people were found living on it; all that was found was a cat and a dog. The crew aboard was never seen again.
The Lost Evidence proposed that a Japanese ship seen in the photograph was the Koshu Maru, a Japanese military ship. The Lost Evidence was quickly discredited, however, after Japanese blogger Kota Yamano found the original source of the photograph in the Archives in the National Diet Library Digital Collection. The original source of the photo ...
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It has been estimated that 100,000 Japanese people disappear annually. [2] However, jōhatsu may be underreported in the official numbers. [2] In 2015, Japan's National Police Agency had registered 82,000 missing persons, and 80,000 were found by the end of the year. [2]