In Japan if you want to disappear from your life you can just pick up the phone and a "night moving company" will turn you into one of the country’s "johatsu" - it literally means "evaporated people". Meet those who have chosen to disappear and the people left behind.
Each year, some choose to 'disappear' and abandon their lives, jobs, homes and families. In Japan, there are companies that can help those looking to escape into thin air.
In Japan, the Johatsu, literally "evaporated people", choose to abandon their current lives - due to family strain, work pressure or any other reason. So-called 'night moving' companies help them disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else.
Loved ones can be left searching for answers. We meet private investigator Kudou Katsunori as he goes on the hunt for an elderly man who left his wife one day and never came back.
This is part of the Rulebreakers series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute, in which we look at those who challenge the established ways of doing things.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200903-the-companies-that-help-people-vanish
https://nypost.com/2016/12/10/the-chilling-stories-behind-japans-evaporating-people/
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/world-57831841
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