How to find a missing person in Japan

Here are the solutions to find a person in Japan:

• Japans Missing Person Search Support Association 
• Googles Missing Persons Page 
• Worldwide search for people 

Use Google to find their current webpages

Ways to inform your family of your situation:

1. Contact your loved one(s) using SMS texting and other social media
(e.g., Facebook, My Space, Twitter, etc) that your loved one(s) may use.

2. Google
Google has created the site, "Google Person Finder".
https://google.org/personfinder/test
http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en

If you are in Japan, you can post messages about your whereabouts.  A
a person looking for you can type in your name to find out if you are safe. Similarly, your family or friends may have posted a message that they are
looking for you.

3.  Cell Phone Messages
If you have a cell phone in Japan, you can post messages via your cell
phone provider.  Family and friends who know your cell phone company can
check the cell phone company's website below and type in your phone number
to see any message you have left.  The available areas are Aomori, Miyagi,
Yamagata and Fukushima prefectures.

4. Other methods

• NTT emergency voice message board
• Family Links website of the International Committee of the Red Cross. (Search their website find the specific page.)
• Person Finder (japan.person-finder.appspot.com)