{"id":181474,"date":"2014-10-09T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=181474"},"modified":"2014-10-09T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:00:11","slug":"information-sought-missing-yamada-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/information-sought-missing-yamada-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Information sought on missing Yamada sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_181479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181479\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Hideki-Yamada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-181479\" alt=\"Natsuki and Chinatsu Yamada\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Hideki-Yamada-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natsuki and Chinatsu Yamada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My two Japanese daughters, Ms. Natsuki and Ms. Chinatsu Yamada, aged 33 and 26 respectively, came to Saipan for sightseeing from June 28 to 30, 2014. However, both of them have disappeared in the late afternoon of June 29. During their stay on Saipan, they moved around the island using a rental Toyota RAV4.<\/p>\n<p>So far, we have visited Saipan from Japan for short stays four times to hear from the Department of Public Safety on the progress of the investigation over the case and are planning to come back again in November this year.<\/p>\n<p>But in view of the lack of new information or discovery that may lead to the conclusion of the case, we hereby humbly ask anybody who saw them to provide us with any information whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Please send information, if any, to the Consular Office of Japan (Tel. 323-7201, or 7202, or cojsf@ag.mofa.go.jp. Your kind cooperation is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hideki Yamada<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Nagano, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My two Japanese daughters, Ms. Natsuki and Ms. Chinatsu Yamada, aged 33 and 26 respectively,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":181479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1244,1245,170,215],"class_list":["post-181474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-chinatsu-yamada","tag-hideki-yamada","tag-japan","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}