An update based on a brief survey online of Japanese media for the Alice Hodgkinson story; still zero coverage by Japanese mainstream media. However, one new article by the online news arm of another Japanese ISP:
The article below was posted online 1916 Wednesday July 7, 2021; similar to the July 6th online article by Yahoo! News, BIGLOBE News is also not a mainstream Japanese news media source. And, it also largely references the coverage from the foreign ( mostly British ) press. There still hasn’t been any coverage by mainstream Japanese media , even English-language news sites such as JapanTimes or even JapanToday.
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28歳イギリス人女性が日本で行方不明 メモ発見の神奈川県警が公開拒否との報道も（2021年7月7日）｜BIGLOBEニュース
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28-year-old British woman missing in Japan; Kanagawa police who found the note reportedly refuse to release it. ]
Wednesday, 7 July, 7:16 pm
Caption for stock photo: A British woman who lived in Kanagawa Prefecture and worked as an English teacher has been missing for about a week. The Sun, Wales Online and other media outlets around the world have been reporting the story.
English teacher in Japan.
Alice Hodgkinson, a 28-year-old woman from Nottingham, England, has been missing since the 1st of this month. She came to Japan from the UK in March 2020 and came to live in Kanagawa Prefecture, where she worked as an English teacher. She had been absent from work on the same day as she went missing, although she had not appeared to have changed recently.
She emailed her father on 30 June.
Alice was last seen on the 29th of June, and on the 30th she was in contact with her father, Stephen, who is in the UK, by email. According to Stephen, who spoke to the media, there was nothing suspicious in the texts and he always said she was "living happily in Japan".
There is nothing we can do at the moment," he said. We are just waiting to hear from the Foreign Ministry," he said, his shoulders slumping.
I love Japan. Every day is fun.
Alice's contract as an English teacher in Japan was for one year, but she had extended it for another year because "I love Japan and every day is fun". Her colleagues and friends at work are concerned and have made posters calling for help in finding her and providing information.
Her brother Peter has also been spreading information about Alice's disappearance on social media. The family and friends are working together to find Alice as soon as possible.
The police have refused to release the memo.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Police, Nottingham Police, the British and Japanese Foreign Ministries, and the Commonwealth Development Agency are currently in contact with each other, but there are some disturbing stories circulating. The Kanagawa Prefectural Police, who found what appears to be a note in Alice's home, are refusing to release the information to the public, according to foreign media, and this is attracting criticism.
Alice is 167cm tall and has shoulder-length blonde hair. The Kanagawa police are currently expanding their search for Alice, but have not made any comment to the media, saying "nothing is known for sure yet".
