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In Japan, You Can Pay Companies to Make You Completely Disappear and Start a New Life – It’s Called “Johatsu” and Police Won’t Even Look for You
What happens when the pressure to conform becomes unbearable? In Japan, thousands each year choose a path that is almost unheard of elsewhere: they vanish. Known as jouhatsu, or “evaporation,” this phenomenon blurs the line between personal reinvention and cultural silence — and raises questions about what drives people to erase themselves from their own…
Indigenous Man Travels Thousands of Miles to Granddaughter’s Graduation
In December 2015, Yolngu elder Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi traveled 3,000 kilometers from his home on a remote island for a single, defining moment. The trip took him from Elcho Island in northeast Arnhem Land to a school hall in Healesville, Victoria, to watch his granddaughter, Sasha, graduate. When he arrived, the man who spoke primarily…