Asami Chida: Japan's Mysterious Disappearance Case (Documentary)
It's Tuesday the 6th of March 2001 in Hokkaido's Muroran city, Japan. Entrance exams caused 16-year old Asami Chida's high school to be closed, giving her the day off. While Asami worked part-time at the branch of a bakery near her home, she aspired to work at the main bakery downtown close to her high school. Before she could transfer though, she was told to attend a coffee making course given by the owner of the bakery. That morning, Asami called the bakery and said she'd stop by somewhere after 1 pm. Though, when she took the bus and passed the bakery a few minutes before 1 pm, she strangely stayed in the bus for 3 more stops, only to get off at the Saty shopping center. Half an hour later, Asami took a bus back to the bakery. While she had likely arrived at the bus stop near the bakery, and taken two calls from a supposed boyfriend around the time of her expected arrival, she suddenly disappeared soon after and her PHS device got disconnected. Let's take a look into the investigation into this strange disappearance, possible theories and the impact the disappearance has had on Muroran city.
Thank you to my viewer @jujubee82 for recommending this case. I have not covered a disappearance case before and was very intrigued by this unsolved vanishing, going on for more than two decades. I hope to bring some more attention to this case so that the truth might still be uncovered after all these years. It would be wonderful if Asami would be able to come back home to her parents after all these years.
If you happen to have any information regarding this case, please contact investigators:
English:
“High school girl missing from Muroran city”
Muroran city Police Station
Muroran Police Station Investigation Office for Sapporo 0143-43-4220
Muroran Police Station for Sapporo 0143-46-0110
日本語：
「室蘭市内から行方不明の女子高校生」
室蘭警察署
札幌方面室蘭警察署捜査対策室 0143-43-4220
札幌方面室蘭警察署 0143-46-0110
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
04:13 Asami Chida
08:18 Timeline
20:56 Theory #1 Bakery owner
39:59 Theory #2 Stalker
46:45 Theory #3 Abduction
51:14 Theory #4 Runaway
54:45 Aftermath
01:01:26 Conclusion
Music:
Esther Abrami - Remembering Her
COAG - The Edge of Silence
COAG - Murderous Minds
COAG - Dark Memories of the Past Still Linger
Myuu - Silent Turmoil
Esther Abrami - Alone With My Thoughts
Taketones - Documentary Background Piano - Soft & Serious
Video sources:
The 4th door footage: @青い鳥の事件簿
Muroran Sakae High School footage: @室蘭栄高等学校同窓会
TV Asahi 2011 program: スーパーＪチャンネル 室蘭女子高生失踪事件
TBS 2001 program
The Door of Miracles: The Power of TV (2003) program: 奇跡の扉 TVのチカラ - SOS-027 室蘭美人女子高生失踪事件
North Korea summit 2002: NTV news - • 【記録】 当時の日本テレビ報道フロアの様子 北朝鮮拉致 日朝首脳会談のそのとき （2...
Shiori Ino stalker incident: TBS - • “保存期間満了”で廃棄 桶川ストーカー殺人事件 民事裁判の記録 さいたま地裁｜TBS...
Asami news segments from: HBC news, HTB Hokkaido news, STV news and Hokkaido news UHB.
Maps: Google Earth and Google Streetview
B-roll: pexels.com
Information sources:
Hokkaido pref. police: https://www.police.pref.hokkaido.lg.j...
National Police Agency (NPA): https://www.npa.go.jp/index.html
Organization for finding Asami Chida: https://zawazawa.jp/asamichida-muroran/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan: https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-pa...
Donan bus: donanbus.co.jp
North Korean abduction: http://www.sukuukai.jp/
Comments from X/Twitter and 5Chan as shown in the video.
Newspaper: 室蘭民報
Weather report: Japan Meteorological Agency
Picarin2005 blog: https://blog.goo.ne.jp/picarin2005/e/...
Other informative sources:
https://ameblo.jp/maeba28/entry-12223...
https://newsmatomedia.com/chida-asami
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASPBH3...
https://news.infoseek.co.jp/article/k...
https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article...
https://guardians7.com/muroran-missing/
https://newsee-media.com/chida-asami
https://clairvoyant-report.com/2023/0...
https://blog.broadcreation.com/memo/2...
https://www.uhb.jp/news/single.html?i...
https://www.sohu.com/a/679125429_564086
https://mixi.jp/view_bbs.pl?comm_id=2...
https://www.muroran-hakuchoukai.org/t...
https://mixi.jp/list_bbs.pl?id=294462...
https://pouchs.jp/2gVgf?page=4
https://1pack.blog/what-is-the-truth-...
https://archive.is/3UJSI#selection-58...
https://gobou-chan.com/case/muroran/
https://dokujyoch.com/archives/869939...
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/br...
https://note.com/illuyankas/n/n6e1f5f...
Tags:
#truecrime #japan #documentary #unsolved #mystery #unsolvedmysteries