In Japan verschwinden jährlich 80.000 Menschen. Die meisten wurden nicht entführt oder waren wegen eines Verbrechens auf der Flucht. Sie beschlossen einfach, ihre verbliebenen Freunde und Familie zu verlassen und woanders ein neues Leben zu beginnen
https://president.jp/articles/-/109996
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Kind of funny since so many people (including me) likes to say that “Japan is a egg” in the sense it’s so small, the chances of you knowing someone who knows someone you knew are higher than anywhere else.
I was one of them… for real no joke.
The article citing the number of missing persons reports received by the police(行方不明者数); half of then found within a day, and the vast majority (85%) are resolved within a week. By that logic, the U.S. has 600,000 people disappearing each year, which is roughly 2.5 times more per capita.
[https://www.ivservice.co.jp/column/missing-person-kakuritsu/](https://www.ivservice.co.jp/column/missing-person-kakuritsu/)
What about those who up and leave despite living in rental apartments? I wonder if they tell their landlords before disappearing.
It’s a common occurrence in certain realms. When I was working at a kyaba way back when, 3 coworkers „jumped“ and disappeared at different times, 2 of them with the sales of the night. I still wonder where they are, and a few times have run into someone that looks enough like them for me to call their name…
It’s called evaporated people
There is even a business to help people secretly move their stuff overnight and dissapear
I ran into a Japanese fellow in Botswana. He got sick of his old life and became a ramen chef in a village. Seemed happy.
Sounds like Humans just being Humans.
Or were they supposed to be grateful for their community imposed misery and suffer in silence like others did before them?
The truly marvelous thing about Humans alive in this time period and technological development is this: we KNOW there are different options and more of us are taking them where we can.
This is a good thing.
There was a TV drama (forgot the title) about this phenomenon… maybe in the 1990s. A team of specialists would help clients disappear from their current lives – due to them owing massive debts to loan sharks and other sorts of problems – and relocate them elsewhere in Japan.
How is this even possible in 2026?
I guess they woke up and they don’t want to make richer the billionaires
Harmonious society..
These people are called Jōhatsu (jouhatsu), or people who purposely vanish from their established lives without a trace. It’s scary/fascinating that this is such a common occurrence that there is a name for it.
Reconciliation is not a common Japanese trait
Fair enough…🤔