Missing person cases in Japan

Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer (1922-2014)

Japanese World War II Soldier (1915−1997)

20th-century Japanese murderer

Junko Furuta was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers—Hiroshi Miyano (18), Jō Ogura (17), Shinji Minato (16), and Yasushi Watanabe (17)—and took place over a 40-day period starting on 25 November 1988.

thumb|The jōhatsu disappear from their lives, often to escape shame from society. or jouhatsu refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives without a trace. This phenomenon can be seen all over the world, such as the United States, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Kidnapped Japanese child (1964-)

abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea from 1977-83

Japanese director of anime series and original video animations (1972-2019)

Japanese officer in WWII, war criminal

animator, animation director

Japanese manga artist (1974–2024)

Japanese fighter pilot in World War II

unsolved 1984–1985 extortion case in Japan directed at the industrial confectioneries Ezaki Glico and Morinaga

1989 murder in Japan

incident in Japan

Japanese actor and singer

train wreck

Japanese baseball player

1997 murder in Tokyo, Japan

Cause celebre

American poet

murder case that occurred in the city of Ashikaga