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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…