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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thomas" data-source="post: 196" data-attributes="member: 1">NEWS: Many Japanese still missing after attackReported by [DLMURL="http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news"]Mainichi News[/DLMURL]:Many Japanese still missing after attackSeveral Japanese World Trade Center workers remain unaccounted for after terrorists flew commercial jets into the building in an attack in New York Tuesday, causing the entire structure to collapse.Two Nishi-Nippon Bank workers, Kazuhiro Anai and Takuya Nakamura had still not been found Wednesday after the building collapsed. Speaking at a press conference in Fukuoka on Wednesday, bank officials grimly announced that there had been "no progress" in making contact with the pair. Another employee, Minoru Tahara was confirmed safe after he contacted his wife.Chaos also continued among workers from the Fuji Bank's offices between the 72nd and 82nd floors of the World Trade Center. A total of 12 of the 125 workers remain missing. The other 113 employees have been confirmed safe.Other companies to report missing Japanese workers included the Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Co., where two of three employees remained unaccounted for. As of noon Wednesday Japanese time no deaths from the company had been confirmed.At least one Japanese person has been heavily injured following the attack. The man, Shizuoka Bank worker Toshio Shinya, was hospitalized with a broken right leg. It was expected he would be released from hospital Wednesday.Eight workers were reportedly working in the Shizuoka Bank's 80th-floor branch in the World Trade Center building when the planes smashed into it and exploded in flames. Two other executives were not in the building at the time.One of the dispatched employees reportedly called his wife by cell phone saying he had managed to escape from the building. At a press conference held shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday Japanese time, an executive from the Shizuoka Bank's head branch in Shizuoka said he had made contact with another employee. The employee said all bank workers had evacuated the building.Later reports confirmed that all 10 of the bank's Japanese workers had been rescued safely.Contact couldn't be made with the Bank of Yokohama's branch on the 46th floor of the World Trade Center's No. 1 tower, but all three employees were later confirmed safe. One reportedly escaped from the building and another was absent at the time of the attack. The bank had initially been unable to confirm the whereabouts of another Japanese man, 38-year-old Yuichi Itakura, but later reports said he was unhurt.All 80 Japanese employees from the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank's branch, who were separated between the two towers of the center building, escaped unscathed.The Asahi Bank, which employed 23 Japanese in its branch on the 60th floor of the World Trade Center, said all its employees were safe.All eight employees from the Chugoku Bank's 90th-floor office were unharmed. Bank officials said three Japanese employees worked at the bank along with other employees from the United States. Branch employees said they followed instructions and evacuated the building using the stairs immediately after a blast that rocked the building was heard. (Mainichi Shimbun, Sept. 12, 2001)Copyright ﾂｩ Mainichi Interactive</blockquote>

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