Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[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.
Megumi Yokota (横田 めぐみ, Yokota Megumi) (born 5 October 1964) is a Japanese citizen who was abducted by a North Korean agent in 1977 when she was a thirteen-year-old junior high school student. She was one of at least seventeen Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The North Korean government has ...
Rahma el-Dennaoui, a Lebanese-Australian girl, went missing on 10 November 2005. Despite a police search, and appeals to the general public, no trace of the little girl has yet been found. [202] 5 January 2006 Joe Pichler: 18 Bremerton, Washington, U.S.
Found alive 4 days 2006 Jill Carroll: 29 Iraq American journalist for The Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped by Iraqi militants on January 7, 2006. She was held hostage by her captors for two months, but was freed without harm. She later retired from journalism and became a firefighter. [151] Found alive 2 months 2006 Chee Gaik Yap: 24 Malaysia
Shoichi Yokoi was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War who was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945. He disappeared in July 1944 during the Second Battle of Guam , [ 153 ] and on the evening of January 24, 1972, he was discovered alive in the jungle.
Editor’s note: This article discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. Hannah Kobayashi has been ...
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.
CONWAY, N.H. (AP) -- A 15-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared while on her way home from school nine months ago is safely home with her family, the state attorney general said Monday.