Alive (returned) Kaoru Hasuike Male September 29, 1957 Disappeared on July 31, 1978 with his girlfriend Yukiko Okudo from the coast of Kashiwazaki, Niigata. Alive (returned) Yukiko Okudo Female April 15, 1956 Disappeared on July 31, 1978 with her boyfriend Kaoru Hasuike from coast of Kashiwazaki, Niigata. Alive (returned) Hitomi Soga Female May 17, 1959 Disappeared together with her mother Miyoshi Soga on August 12, 1978 from Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture Married Charles Robert Jenkins, a deserter from the United States Army, in 1980, and returned to Japan with him in 2004.