Search for a missing person in Japan, mid-late 90s

[ingriam]

How long would someone generally need to be missing before the police would file a report? Or does that vary between prefectures? Also, what - other than the name and description of the missing person - would go into the report? I tried Google, but all I got were US police pages, and some action movies, believe it or not

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[elfbert]

I'm not sure it would help, but you might find some details in the Lindsay Hawker murder case?

I think her friends reported her missing quite quickly, but it wasn't until her workplace reported her missing after 2 days that police began searching for her. There might be some detail somewhere?

She was murdered in 2007, so a bit out of your timeframe, but possibly easier for you to find/read about because of all the reports in the English newspapers/websites.

[lilacsigil]

It will depend who is missing. After the series of child murders in the early 2000s, the police have become quite serious about missing children and will act quickly. An adult in a "mainstream" job (teaching, office etc.) is also taken seriously. A friend of mine briefly went missing (he'd actually been hit by a car and was in an induced coma in hospital, but for some reason they didn't tell anyone) and the police swung into action when no-one could contact him through an entire work day. (He was fine, eventually!) Someone who is not seen as reliable - a foreigner, a homeless person, a person with no steady job, a retired person - could be missing for days before anyone starts officially looking for them.

[ingriam]

He's a middle-school student, with a good attendance record, and generally good grades.

Thanks for the clarification, by the way.