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The Bizarre World of Japan’s johatsu, “evaporated” people

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Dec 12, 20227:40Society & Culture

What if someone close to you just … vanished one day? That happens to tens of thousands of families a year in Japan, and it happened to Jake Adelstein, too, back in 2018 — when his accountant disappeared, just before tax...

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The Bizarre World of Japan’s johatsu, “evaporated” people is an episode from Eclipsed by Sony Music. What if someone close to you just … vanished one day? That happens to tens of thousands of families a year in Japan, and it happened to Jak...

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Published Dec 12, 2022, 7:40 long, audio available.

The Bizarre World of Japan’s johatsu, “evaporated” people

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