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How I disappear

The DocumentaryRulebreakers
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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.

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Sun 23 Aug 202018:32GMT
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