339 cases of missing children in 5 years What's going on in their precious places | NHK. "Haru-chan, I'm sorry I couldn't help you" (Mother of a male student) Last December, a maleStudent with disabilities went missing from a welfare facility in Suita City, Osaka.

Yuki Shimizu, a first-year junior high school student from Toyonaka City, passed away in a nearby river. Over the past five years there have been at least 339 cases of children temporarily missing from facilities.