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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 lives.…
Watch – Japanese Farmers Turn Rice Fields to Incredible Works of Art to Get People Interested in Farming Again!
At first glance, the countryside of northern Japan is quiet with just rows of rice paddies stretching toward the horizon under the summer sun. But from a single high edge point, the familiar fields transform. Shapes appear where there sounded to be none and colors form scenes that ripple with the breeze. For a fleeting…