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World Service,19 Aug 2020,27 mins

Rulebreakers: How I disappear

The Documentary Podcast

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In Japan, if you want to disappear from your life, you can just pick up the phone and a ‘night moving company’ will turn you into one of the country’s ‘johatsu,’ or literally ‘evaporated people.’ You can cease to exist. Meet the people who choose to disappear and the people who are left behind.

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