Search dogs scour Jiufen trails for missing Japanese tourist

The man disappeared after becoming separated from his wife on a group tour, with his last recorded sighting near a mountain trail entrance.

Channel: Nippon TV News ·

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Search teams with dogs are combing mountain paths around Jiufen, Taiwan, for a Japanese tourist who has been missing for more than a week, Japan's Nippon Television News (日テレNEWS) reports.

The man, in his 70s, became separated from his wife during a group tour on October 29. He did not return to the meeting point. The report, broadcast on November 6, shows dozens of searchers continuing to look for him.

Security-camera footage shows him walking briskly down a slope. According to Taiwanese broadcaster TVBS, whose reporting appears in the segment, cameras last recorded him near a hiking trail entrance about an 11-minute walk from the tour's meeting point. The report does not establish where he went afterward.

Jiufen is a former gold-mining town in New Taipei City, northeast of Taipei, known for its lanterns, teahouses and winding shopping lanes. The footage also shows the less familiar terrain beyond the tourist streets: a steep trail entrance and mountains obscured by fog.

A local shopkeeper interviewed by Taiwanese media urges visitors to stay together, describing the town's numerous stairways and tangled routes. Citing Taiwanese media, the report says three missing-person reports have been filed there this year; it does not say whether the other people were found. The search for the Japanese visitor remains ongoing in this report.

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