Missing FG

[Samurai_Jerk]

The police have confirmed that Dart is NOT in custody and they are searching for him.

[sublight]

Well one police officer has confirmed that he's not aware of Dart's being in custody in his koban. I may be wrong, but I don't get the impression that seamless integration and up-to-the-minute accounting of detainees has been a top priority for the NPA.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Well one police officer has confirmed that he's not aware of Dart's being in custody in his koban.

Source?

[Taro Toporific]

Garin Dart: Japan police search for missing British businessman who "vanished without a trace" one week ago
--His worried wife, Yukako, who is pregnant with their second child, raised the alarm when he did not return home--
Mirror Online | 29 May 2013
<big snip>...A colleague at Bluesilver said that Garin's disappearance was "completey out of character".
The staff member said that Garin last made contact with his company at 1pm on Wednesday, May 22.
He told Mirror.co.uk: "He was on the phone to a colleague. He said his iPhone battery was running extremely low. The conversation was business as usual, as it always was with Garin.
"Garin was working hard. It was the busiest time in the company's history. He is instrumental in all of that.
"We've gone back over everything and there is nothing that leads us to believe it was anything other than business as usual.
"He has literally vanished into thin air. There has been no trace of him in any shape or form. No communication with friends or family."

[Kegsy]

More information on Garin can be found here:

http://foreignvolunteers.org/2013/05/29 ... t-missing/

[Russell]

[Coligny]

Good info would be, map where he parked his car, supposed entrance where he was going to take the metro. Recon to check if there would be exploitable CCTV cams. Combing around. Did he have a subway card, does their computer monitor and link ingress/egress or tally. Then same at the station exit until the meeting point.
More than one week now, i don't see this ending well, if it even ends...
The lowbatt on the iphone is a big bummer...

[BigInJapan]

Good info would be, map where he parked his car, supposed entrance where he was going to take the metro. Recon to check if there would be exploitable CCTV cams. Combing around. Did he have a subway card, does their computer monitor and link ingress/egress or tally. Then same at the station exit until the meeting point.
More than one week now, i don't see this ending well, if it even ends...
The lowbatt on the iphone is a big bummer...

These would seem to be standard procedures performed in other countries, but I have my doubts as to how capable the local keystones would be of undertaking an investigation like this. I think that the phone company should be able to track the location history of the iPhone regardless of the battery being dead now.
As the iPhone movement history is recorded, maybe there is some way Softbank/KDDI and/or the coppers can track the movement up until the battery died (I would think they can track the movement history as it passed by cell towers using the phone's IMEI number).

[matsuki]

Good info would be, map where he parked his car, supposed entrance where he was going to take the metro. Recon to check if there would be exploitable CCTV cams. Combing around. Did he have a subway card, does their computer monitor and link ingress/egress or tally. Then same at the station exit until the meeting point.
More than one week now, i don't see this ending well, if it even ends...
The lowbatt on the iphone is a big bummer...

These would seem to be standard procedures performed in other countries, but I have my doubts as to how capable the local keystones would be of undertaking an investigation like this. I think that the phone company should be able to track the location history of the iPhone regardless of the battery being dead now.
As the iPhone movement history is recorded, maybe there is some way Softbank/KDDI and/or the coppers can track the movement up until the battery died (I would think they can track the movement history as it passed by cell towers using the phone's IMEI number).

All this is possible...whether it happens or not, I have my doubts that it will be timely.

This whole thing is really weird...if he was locked up, I'm pretty sure his wife would have found him by now. The only thing I can think of is him jumping ship?? He sounds like an awesome guy and that would be totally out of character though???

[yeahbaby]

If he got caught doing something wifey might not like to hear, he'd probably want to handle it without involving her.

such as?

anyway. the cops say he's not with them - does that specifically exclude immigration cops ? being that they are a law unto themselves.

[Coligny]

You don't go missing purposefully on the way to a scheduled meeting...
Usually it would take 10-20 minutes before your assistant / associate receive a phone call asking if tje meeting is cancelled or what happened...

[Taro Toporific]

That Dart websites on Facebook are recommending, "that everyone to hang fire on any media outreach or flyer circulation. This is a really sensitive and crucial time for Embassy-Police-Family relations."
In other words it's a KIDNAPPING.

Foreign-Volunteers-Japan.png

Facebook group: Foreign Volunteers Japan
https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2 ... ccPFXs.png

[Marked Trail]

it's a KIDNAPPING.

In Japanese "logic," it's only joshiki/common sense that Dart's event planning business is catering which equals mizushobi which in turn can be construed as a business that must pay licence fee/insurance/tribute to the True Police of Japan. A foreign business person would just laugh at such demands and perhaps this is how the whole problem started.

[Coligny]

This is reaching epic level of suck...

[Mike Oxlong]

Good info would be, map where he parked his car, supposed entrance where he was going to take the metro. Recon to check if there would be exploitable CCTV cams. Combing around. Did he have a subway card, does their computer monitor and link ingress/egress or tally. Then same at the station exit until the meeting point.
More than one week now, i don't see this ending well, if it even ends...
The lowbatt on the iphone is a big bummer...

These would seem to be standard procedures performed in other countries, but I have my doubts as to how capable the local keystones would be of undertaking an investigation like this. I think that the phone company should be able to track the location history of the iPhone regardless of the battery being dead now.
As the iPhone movement history is recorded, maybe there is some way Softbank/KDDI and/or the coppers can track the movement up until the battery died (I would think they can track the movement history as it passed by cell towers using the phone's IMEI number).

Seem to recall them refusing to do this in the Lucy Blackman "investigation"...

[Taro Toporific]

A foreign business person would just laugh at such {Yakuza} demands and perhaps this is how the whole problem started.

It's pretty hard to take these asswipe clowns seriously.

Japanese mafia tattoos on display in Tokyo.jpg

[Coligny]

Privacy 'laws' ?

When i see the flood of bullshit flowing from my ISP to just have them reset my connection if the fiber bridge lose his ip... It can only get worse from there...

[Taro Toporific]

Ah, the trolls are coming out now...

Takeshima-(StopKinvasion).png

twitter.com/St0pKinvasi0n

[Russell]

Police in Britain and Interpol have also been alerted.

Source

Scratching my head why UK police and Interpol have been alerted. Seems to suggest there is something going on outside Japan?

[Taro Toporific]

Police in Britain and Interpol have also been alerted.

Source
Scratching my head why UK police and Interpol have been alerted. Seems to suggest there is something going on outside Japan?

Besides kidnapping and/or murder, another typical scenario is that a business owner took a runner (to escape a crush of responsibilities). The cops need to eliminate "self disappearance" as the cause of his going missing.

[Russell]

In the video I posted of him, he doesn't come across as someone who would commit suicide. He rather seems to enjoy life.

Of course, police need to eliminate this possibility, but there is still this question why Interpol is involved.

[Coligny]

In the video I posted of him, he doesn't come across as someone who would commit suicide.

Nor go awol with a pregger on final approach...

[Taro Toporific]

In the video I posted of him, he doesn't come across as someone who would commit suicide. He rather seems to enjoy life.
Of course, police need to eliminate this possibility, but there is still this question why Interpol is involved.

I really don't think suicide is a problem either. However, the mid-life crisis of an inexperienced, overextended entrepreneur is a quite understandable and common reason for that person to do the classic Japanese "midnight runaway."

Interpol was brought in because the Japanese police wanted to check that Dart didn't just skip out of Japan on a fishing boat and then continue traveling by air with his passport from Korea or some other Asian nation. It's just a process of elimination: If he didn't leave Japan, then he is still here and perhaps in dire straights or worse.

[Taro Toporific]

In the video I posted of him, he doesn't come across as someone who would commit suicide.

Nor go awol with a pregger on final approach...

That pregger wife would be major stresser to make a guy want to run, and he was opening (financially overextending himself) a new Hong Kong office.

[Coligny]

Don't make sense, you don't crack before.usually you sink after...
Kids, like cats, the first is big deal, the second/third just a little more litter to scoop, not as life changing.
As for the HK office, if it was early stage, all mood would have been in the opportunities, not yet the debt/cornered/must die now phase.
Don't change the sort of major fact that, you don't disappear on the way to a scheduled meeting...

[yanpa]

Much experience with that kind of situation then?

Taro's theory is certainly plausible - while each factor by itself is not reason to snap, there could well have been some cumulative stress building up over the years which wasn't apparent and one day - pouff.

[Kegsy]

I know that whenever anything like this happens the friends and family always say he’s not the type to go missing, to walk away from something.

But he really isn’t the type.

If you go back to the tsunami he made things happen, not everything he was involved in succeeded but he tried a heck of a lot. He got other people involved, he got me involved, he linked me with other people and we got stuff done.
He didn't walk away from it. His first thoughts were how can I get involved and how can I help.

That’s not someone who walks away from a problem. Many people stood back and didn't feel the need to do stuff. He tackled it head first.

His last post on Facebook was that he was going to have a hectic June and to wish him luck. That was positive energy. That was, I've got shit loads to do, but fuck me I'm going to do it.

That’s not, I’m on the first fishing boat to Korea. And that’s not I’m going for a walk off Rainbow Bridge.


I’ve known him for nigh on 10 years, not closely, but well enough to have a pint with or to give him a call if there was something I thought he could help me with or he thought I could help him with.

And from what I know of him, he’s really not the type to run away from a problem.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

His last post on Facebook was that he was going to have a hectic June and to wish him luck.

Well (and at the risk of incurring wrath because Internet Rule #1 is that you must always be serious when discussing missing white people), he certainly got that prediction right. If I was such a soothsayer, I'd forecast winning the lottery, spending all the cash on boozing, women and drugs, then just waste the rest.

[Kegsy]

Why? Because the internet rules are different to those in real life?

Or are you just a complete prick on the internet?

It's not that you're discussing missing white people but that you're responding to a poster who has said that he's known 'the missing white person' for nigh on 10 years.

So do yourself a favour and hold back on your fucking hillarious japes. Or alternatively may I suggest you walk into the Roppongi Hobgoblin this evening and start cracking them. I'd imagine you wouldn't be walking out of there.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Wow! Lucky it's not a white woman who's missing...