# How criminal is it to walk away from my own life?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-criminal-is-it-to-walk-away-from-my-own-life/832081 "2019-04-05T10:25:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-criminal-is-it-to-walk-away-from-my-own-life/832081/41 "2019-04-11T15:22:06Z")

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This is a bit tangential, but in Japan there is an industry that will help people walk away from their lives and become ‘Johatsu’, i.e. evaporated.

> **[Japan's Missing People: On the Trail of the Johatsu](https://time.com/4646293/japan-missing-people-johatsu-evaporated/)**
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> Are thousands of Japanese really staging elaborate disappearances every year?

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