Have you ever felt like disappearing, cutting off your ties with your present life and starting a fresh life someplace else? If yes, you can go ‘Johatsu’
In several movies, characters have spoken about disappearing from their lives to start a new one. Disappearing means completely cutting off ties with family, friends, and a job and starting a new life somewhere else with a completely new identity.
If you have ever felt like this and wished to truly disappear, you must take the next flight to Japan and go ‘Johatsu’.
In Japan, the literal meaning of ‘Johatsu’ is evaporation.
Johatsu means the act of disappearing forever—cutting ties with family, friends, society, and jobs to relocate somewhere else and establish a new identity and life.
Johatsu has been present in Japan for a long time, but it is suddenly trending. People leave their present lives due to debt, failed marriages, societal pressure, and several other reasons.
The people who wish to disappear are helped by Night Movers, private and secret companies that help such people disappear.
The Night Movers charge between INR 30,000 and 1.5 lakh to help a client disappear. The service includes a new identity, a place of accommodation, and even a way of earning a livelihood.
