article in Japan Times for those with Ainu or Japan interests
2019/12/19
upcoming exhibition - National Ainu museum
2019/12/15
in Japan when you want to 'disappear' from your customary life
September 2019 was the 48 minute broadcast of a subject in the Undercover Asia series (season 6).
"Johatsu" is a term for 'evaporating' or suddenly falling out of social visibility, free from the obligations or abuses or pressures of the life you live.
Services and laws make the incidence of this voluntary disappearance expand year by year.
A related discussion of the matter is online at https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/living-in-the-shadows-chasing-the-evaporated-people-of-japan/
Every year, nearly 100,000 Japanese vanish without a trace. They are known as johatsu, or evaporated people. What drives them to engineer their own disappearance?
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