Japanese → English transcript

Ms. Adachi’s school backpack was found in the mountains beyond this police line, but first, this road does not lead to her home at all, it goes in a completely different direction.

This place is about three kilometers northwest of the elementary school, roughly a one-hour walk. As you can see, there are almost no houses around here.

The nearest house is about six hundred meters away. You have to walk along a mountain path to get here.

And this road, where restrictions are still in place, if you walk for about an hour, you can come out at the neighboring settlement.

Around here, the road is still wide enough for cars to pass each other, but as you go on, the road keeps getting narrower and narrower.

About ten minutes further from here, one side drops off into a valley and the other side becomes a steep slope thickly covered with trees.

Local residents said they almost never use this road except by car, and that traffic itself is extremely light here.

It is extremely worrying that her whereabouts are still unknown even after one week, and that is especially true for people in the community.

Yes, the police and fire department are searching with more than about six hundred personnel, but no new information has come out yet.

They seem to be speaking with pupils and guardians as well, but they say they have not obtained any eyewitness information.

Even reporting here at the scene, I get the impression there are very few things like security cameras that could be used to trace her movements.

When we spoke with a guardian whose child attends the same elementary school as Ms. Adachi, they said that with this missing situation continuing for a whole week, their anxiety is understandably starting to build up.

Among them, there were parents who said they had switched to teleworking so as not to leave their children alone.