Mizuki Kinder was 6 years old when she was last seen in Irving, Texas, on February 20, 2013. Her disappearance is linked to an international parental abduction: her mother, Masumi Yamataka, took Mizuki to Japan on March 22, 2013, in violation of custody agreements. Efforts to secure Mizuki’s return to the United States have been unsuccessful.

The case is presented alongside a larger pattern of children taken from the U.S. to Japan, where relatively few return. Mizuki’s father, James Kinder, has continued to press for her return through advocacy groups such as Bring Abducted Children Home. The situation underscores ongoing complications in resolving cross-border custody abductions involving Japan.

If anyone has information about Mizuki’s whereabouts or saw her after March 22, 2013, please share what is known.