Japan’s ‘evaporated’ people: Inside an industry that helps people disappear | South China Morning Post

In Japan, as some 80,000 people go missing every year, according to data from the National Police Agency. Some are later found, but others vanish completely, becoming what’s described as an “evaporated person” or johatsu-sha. The phenomenon is common enough to have an entire industry built around it of specialists w…

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