Companies that help people vanish

The article isn&#x27;t really clear on the mechanics of this.<p>Are they changing their names and starting over entirely?<p>Or are they just moving and the company helps them establish themselves in a way where their name isn&#x27;t likely to appear as easily and Japan has some mix of legal &#x2F; personal norms that allow this to happen &#x2F; them to remain hidden?

BBC have been running some very bleak articles about japan recently. This was from a few weeks ago (private agents that will seduce your wife&#x2F;husband so you can divorce them)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;worklife&#x2F;article&#x2F;20200731-the-saboteurs-you-can-hire-to-end-your-relationship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;worklife&#x2F;article&#x2F;20200731-the-saboteurs-...</a>

There are many valid reasons for yonige(night run away) or johatsu(literally evaporation) in Japan, but there are pernicious side effects.<p>Loans and leases in Japan most often require a guarantor. If the primary loan holder disappears, the guarantor is stuck having to repay the loan or pay out the remainder of the lease agreement.<p>I personally know a family devastated when they found themselves on the hook paying out a loan for a close friend they had known from childhood while trying to build their own business.

I love to get a quote on the cost of disappearing. Maybe I&#x27;m not ready yet but it would be nice to hear my options so that I would have a clear plan should that option ever become necessary. Haha

Is it just me, or does Japan have more of these subcultures like “jouhatsu” and “hikikomori” simply because they give the behavior a name? There are people who do this everywhere but it seems like it’s exoticized when Japanese. Or are these extreme behaviors actually more common in Japan?

I feel like this should be more common. People kill themselves to escape their lives, but they should vanish and start again instead.

This sounds something straight out of a Murakami novel!

Reminds me of Reggie Perrin. See The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;fallandriseofreginaldperrin&#x2F;index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;comedy&#x2F;fallandriseofreginaldperrin&#x2F;inde...</a>

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&gt; [in Japan] Privacy is fiercely protected: missing people can freely withdraw money from ATMs without being flagged, and their family members can’t access security videos that might have captured their loved one on the run.<p>In general, does this fiercely protected privacy culture extend to online? No surveillance capitalism in Japan?

I wonder how techniques like these will far in our increasingly present (but still not universal) world of tying one&#x27;s identity to their biometric details, especially their face in not just formal ID documents but also corporate digital visual registries (Facebook being just one example)

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Wow. Just like Breaking Bad. I wonder if something like this is possible in the US?

The page is currently unavailable. Would anyone know of a mirror?

I know the French Foreign Legion used to&#x2F;may still give out passports and many regular army and SS troops from Nazi Germany took this up as a way to restart their lives. For all intents and purposes, this could work too.