Missing FG

[wagyl]

So has this guy been traced yet? Concrete waistcoat maybe? Hiding out in a cheap Asian ghetto?
Seems to have gone mighty quiet....

Let's see.

[GomiGirl]

So has this guy been traced yet? Concrete waistcoat maybe? Hiding out in a cheap Asian ghetto?
Seems to have gone mighty quiet....

He has done a runner.

Will only be traced if he wants to show his face again. He has done nothing "criminal" - ethical crimes are not something that interpol are going to get involved with.

[Coligny]

You have proofs or just assumptions ? Because he still might as well be in a steel drum full of concrete in the bottom of some harbour...

[Russell]

He can be a runner and still be in a steel drum at the bottom of the ocean...

[Coligny]

Thanks... That's helping...

[GomiGirl]

You have proofs or just assumptions ? Because he still might as well be in a steel drum full of concrete in the bottom of some harbour...

That is true - he could be anywhere, even in a steel drum full of concrete - but it was after he had left Japan of his own volition.

Immigration and customs have confirmed his departure from KIX the day after he was reported missing. His movements after he left Japan are unknown.

[chibaka]

Hadn't heard about his leaving through Kansai, I assume the powers that be would have told his nearest and dearest the destination?

[wagyl]

I don't see why Immigration are obliged to inform anyone what a person has written on an embarkation card. I also do not see why anyone who is wanting to hide their final destination doesn't write down a false destination. As GG pointed out, leaving your family is not a crime, and the police have established that he is not in their jurisdiction so if he is a missing person he is not a missing person in Japan.

But you'd think that he would put in the effort to update his Linkedin account, at the very least....

[legion]

But you'd think that he would put in the effort to update his Linkedin account, at the very least....

LinkedIn, the best business stalking site there is. I'm amazed that I know so many incredibly talented and successful people who bear no resemblance to the drunk farts I know

[Coligny]

Immigration and customs have confirmed his departure from KIX the day after he was reported missing. His movements after he left Japan are unknown.

This is a big new element. When did it surface ?

[BigInJapan]

Immigration and customs have confirmed his departure from KIX the day after he was reported missing. His movements after he left Japan are unknown.

This is a big new element. When did it surface ?

This was mentioned awhile ago in this forum:
Tokyo police give up search for British businessman

[omae mona]

Immigration and customs have confirmed his departure from KIX the day after he was reported missing. His movements after he left Japan are unknown.

This is a big new element. When did it surface ?

This was mentioned awhile ago in this forum:
Tokyo police give up search for British businessman

I think Coligny's right, at least as far as what I remember being reported on FG. BigInJapan, as you point out, we did know he had left the country. But I hadn't seen anything mentioning 1) it was KIX, and 2) that he left the day after reported missing. Remember the police report about leaving the country came 2 months after he went missing, and I don't remember anybody saying "by the way, this happened 2 months ago". I had assumed he was lurking in Japan for 2 months before leaving.

Very possible I missed posts about the location and timing, though.

[wagyl]

The two months thing: I read somewhere -- it might have been some clarification somewhere by the journalist who first did the police report story -- which said that it was not the police releasing a statement, it was the journalist asking the police whether the rumour he had heard was true. The impression I got there was not that it took two months for the police to get the information out of Immigration, that information had been known to the police for a while, it just wasn't something they were going to announce themselves.

I do agree that the Kansai and "day following disappearance" aspects are new to me, but not really so surprising.

[Russell]

Mystery, spy claims surround missing Japan-based Chinese professor

Mystery surrounded the disappearance of a Tokyo-based Chinese professor Thursday, amid reports he was being held by Beijing over spying claims.

Colleagues of Zhu Jianrong, 56, professor of international relations in Asia at Toyo Gakuen University, say they are concerned for his safety because they have heard nothing from him since mid July, when he left for his native Shanghai.

“We have no further information and his wife has lost contact with him,” a university spokesman told AFP. “We are worried about him.”

Zhu, who makes regular appearances on Japanese TV, is under investigation by the Chinese ministry of state security, the Sankei Shimbun and Kyodo News have reported, citing unnamed Chinese sources.

China and Japan have a close economic relationship but a prickly diplomatic one.

They are at loggerheads over disputed islands in the East China Sea, and tensions between them have soared over the last year.

Zhu interviewed several military figures during academic research on the Chinese navy earlier this year, sources told Kyodo.

Tabloid magazine Shukan Shincho said Beijing may believe Zhu has been spying for Japan.

Citing an unnamed senior Japanese foreign ministry official and China watchers, the magazine said despite his membership of the Chinese Communist Party and his pro-China commentaries, Zhu has very close ties with Japanese officials.

The academic was summoned by Chinese security as soon as he arrived for a meeting in Shanghai, the magazine said.

“China will likely launch an anti-Japanese campaign, claiming that Japan stole Chinese information” through Zhu, the ministry official was quoted as saying.

Until this week, Beijing had made no official comment about the case.

“Zhu Jianrong is a Chinese citizen,” foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a press conference on Wednesday, when asked whether Zhu had been detained. “Chinese citizens should obey the laws of China.”

He did not elaborate, nor confirm whether Zhu was being held.

Zhu came to Japan in 1986 and gained a doctoral degree in politics at Gakushuin University in Tokyo. His wife is Japanese.

He left home for Shanghai in mid July, but did not return when he said he would, the university spokesman said, adding his Shanghai-based brother had telephoned Zhu’s wife to say he was ill and would be staying on.

“There was information that he was sick, and we were surprised at the comments by China’s foreign ministry yesterday,” the spokesman said.

Chinese authorities on occasion hold dissidents and others under house arrest or incommunicado for extended periods.

Police in Shanghai have declined to comment on the case. Relatives in the city could not be reached for comment.

[matsuki]

Shanghai police...if there was ever a force in the world to make Japanese Police look legit.

[Taro Toporific]

Here we go again???

Frenchman missing five days in Yamanashi mountains
Japan Times / Oct 25, 2013
A Frenchman has been missing since Monday in Yamanashi Prefecture near the country’s second-highest mountain, and his friends are now desperate to raise funds to kick off a private search for him, it was learned Friday.
Pascal Burel, a 50-year-old Saitama Prefecture resident, was last seen Monday afternoon at the foot of 3,193-meter Mount Kitadake in the Southern Alps, asking a bus driver about the bus timetable.
More...

Ongoing info at:
facebook.com/FindPascalBurel

Wait, wait, we all know where that Frenchman is. He's hiding in a pile of truck porn, right?

missing-frenchie.jpg

[Coligny]

D00d, I'm blocking you from my flickr account right nao...

[Taro Toporific]

Businessman who went missing in Tokyo is found alive and well in Yorkshire 'after going on the run from the Japanese mafia'
11:51 GMT, 14 January 2014
...Garin Dart fled to Thailand the same day wearing only a t-shirt and jeans, without a word to his wife or business partners.
‘The biggest mistake I made was I didn’t get in contact with anybody,’ he said. ‘If I was thinking straight I would have sent a message to my family and colleagues saying I was in trouble and needed to go away.
More...

[wagyl]

...and so he contacts the Daily Mail. This guy continues to make judgement errors. Maybe it is the glamorous social life he enjoyed.

It is good to know that the Yaks can't get you if you are in Yorkshire.

[Russell]

But now we all know that he turned his cell phone off by himself...

[wagyl]

Russell I think you are owed a large angst refund from Yorkshire. You almost couldn't sleep.

[yanpa]

But now we all know that he turned his cell phone off by himself...

He didn't have Jake Adelstein on speed dial then...

[legion]

The yakuza stole my homework..............

[Coligny]

The yakuza stole my homework..............

I'd bukake green snot you if i'd know where to aim at...

[matsuki]

So....his new gf dumped him?

[Russell]

But only after he ran out of money...

[legion]

But only after he ran out of money...

Or she ran out of his money

[wagyl]

Does Google know something we don't? Interestingly, my guess at the best way to work out if d00d is still missing...

So....d00d is still missing?

Jesus, Choko, check yourself.
I am sure that the way some people are following and salivating over this, if there was any progress updates would be posted here with little delay.

doesn't flush out the Daily Mail article or the many discussions coming from that, even a day later.

By the way, I peeked at the comments on the Daily Mail site. I really shouldn't have, and I do not recommend it to anyone.

[yanpa]

But now we all know that he turned his cell phone off by himself...

He didn't have Jake Adelstein on speed dial then...

dart-twitter.png

[wagyl]

Shout out to the Chok man!