2-yr-old girl goes missing at Tokyo kindergarten

2-yr-old girl goes missing at Tokyo kindergarten

TOKYO, Japan - A 2-year-old girl has been missing since the morning of Nov. 22 when she was last seen at a kindergarten in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, police say on Nov. 23. The girl, Haruna Wakayama, disappeared at about 11:40 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the kindergarten her 5-year-old brother attends. Haruna is about 90 centimeters tall and has shoulder-length hair. She was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with pink and white stripes, red shorts, and white sneakers rimmed with pink, police said.

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