THE family of Hiroshi Shirai is on Guam to help locate the 67-year-old tourist who has been missing since Saturday.
Shirai arrived on July 2 and checked into the Nikko Hotel. He was supposed to leave the island on July 7, but was not found in his room.
According to information police have received so far, Guam Police Department acting spokesman Sgt. Mike Aguon said Shirai was OK when he came to the hotel.
Yesterday morning, volunteers and a search team combed all of Tumon in the hopes of finding the Japanese national.
“We searched from Gun Beach to Hilton and back, and everywhere within that area,” Aguon said. “We had the Guam Fire Department and Guam Police Department out there searching the waters. They searched from end to end,” Aguon said.
In the afternoon, the search was called off, pending interviews with Shirai’s son and two family friends.
“We’re talking to them to find out more and see if he had any medical problems. That’s where we’re at now,” Aguon said.
Meanwhile, investigators are also reviewing surveillance tapes to determine what Shirai was last seen wearing and the time he left his room.
Shirai was on Guam in 2006 and according to Aguon, it was to meet with some possible business investors.
Anyone with information about Shirai is asked to call GPD at 475-8616/5, the Sgt. Frankie Smith Precinct command at 649-6330, or Guam Crime Stoppers at 477-HELP (4357).
