Chicago Woman, 29, Goes Missing While Traveling in Japan: Family

A Chicago woman who was traveling in Japan has been missing for 10 days, her sister wrote on Facebook.

Kandace Schipper, 29, arrived in Tokyo on May 8 but her family lost contact with her on June 4, according to the post.

"She was communicating every day from Tokyo to family and friends but has not been reachable in 9 days,” her sister Nicole Willea wrote on Facebook Tuesday.

Adam Willea, Schipper’s brother-in-law, told WGNTV: “I mean text, phone calls, pictures, updates, Instagram posts. And then it all abruptly ended on June 4th.”

Schipper was traveling with 27-year-old Luis Torres, and was last heard from when a credit card transaction alerted family, the news station reports.

"Our family is experiencing one of the worst fears possible,” the sister wrote on Facebook, adding her family has communicated with the Chicago Police Department and the U.S. Embassy in Japan.

She asked the public for help in the search for her sister.

Willea told WGNTV that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police won't start a report "until she misses her flight home."

“I guess it’s [an] issue because technically her flight home isn’t scheduled yet,” he told the outlet.

Schipper’s disappearance comes after the family of Pattie Wu-Murad, the Connecticut woman who vanished in the Japanese wilderness while hiking on April 10, told The Messenger they suspended the search for the missing mother after two months with no clues.

With reporting by Diane Herbst.