Eighty relatives and colleagues of 19 Japanese who went missing in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center arrived in New York on Saturday.
Upon arrival, they split into groups and headed for hotels, where they were briefed on the situation in New York by officials of the Japanese Consulate General.
At Kennedy Airport, Consulate General Yoshihiko Arakawa explained that Japanese officials were working around the clock to confirm the whereabouts of the missing, and asked for continued cooperation.
On Sunday, they planned to make rounds of the hospitals treating the wounded and visit near the site of the attack.