Aug 03 (news.com.au) - The 27-year-old primary school teacher from China had travelled there for a solo trip and was staying in a hostel in Sapporo, a picturesque, mountainous city on the island of Hokkaido.
She checked in on July 20, having paid in full ahead of her five-day stay, and was captured on CCTV in happy spirits, leaving and returning to the guesthouse as she went about her holiday.
But on July 25 - the day she was meant to check out of the hotel and fly back to her hometown of Nanping, in China's Fujian province - she apparently vanished. There is no record of Wei boarding her flight home or leaving Japan.
No one knows the whereabouts of Wei Qiujie, the pretty young woman whose disappearance in Japan has sparked a major police search and sent her loving family back home into a panic.
But she did leave behind a clue - a devastating note to her parents that are now desperate to find her.
It's possible Wei left Sapporo for a hot spring resort near Akan Lake, about 300 kilometres from Sapporo. Police have been told she checked into a hotel there on the night of July 22 and left the following morning.
A tour boat operator at the lake reportedly said someone who looked like Wei boarded a boat at 8am, but they're not sure where she went after that.
Wei's father told the media a search of the lake had found no trace of his daughter and police have expanded their search to the whole of Hokkaido island, so far with no results.
Back home, panicked friends and family have been circulating images of Wei online in the hope of finding out what happened to her.
