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Japanese couple's search for missing son continues

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, FEB. 29. An elderly Japanese couple have flown to India for the fourth time in search of their son, Koji Mariyama, who has been missing for almost nine years.

Briefing media in Japanese, Toshio Mariyama said, "My son came to India on a tour in April 1995. He visited several places, including Puri and Thiruvananthapuram, for about a month. But there has been no communication from him since May 1995."

Koji Mariyama, who was born in Ishikawa in Japan, was 26 years old when he disappeared. He is 185 cm tall.

Yoshiko Mariyama, mother of the missing youth said, "The last communication from him was when he called me from Thiruvananthapuram in May 1995 to wish me for my birthday."

Since then, the couple have been searching for their son with the help of the foreign ministry in Japan and the Japanese consulates in India.

Enquiries in Puri revealed that Koji Mariyama may have travelled to Vijayawada instead of Mumbai where he was supposed to board a flight to Japan, said the father who owns a supermarket in Ishikawa. Koji Mariyama was carrying about Rs. 5 lakhs at the time of his disappearance.

He is the youngest of the couple's three children. Any information about the missing youth can be given to the Japanese consulate in Chennai on phone (24323860) or his parents in Japan on phone (81-768-43-1347).

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