I finished listening to the Evaporated: Gone with the Gods podcast recently, and I give it two thumbs up. Jake Adelstein is one of its hosts, and he's the author of Tokyo Vice, which was adapted into a tv show on Max. It's about the thousands of people who go missing every year in Japan. Many of them decide to disappear because of debt, illegal activity catching up with them, or in the case of some women, they're fleeing from domestic abuse. Very riveting. I found it curious that Japan doesn't maintain a database of missing persons, unlike the US. And Japanese culture generally shrugs at the notion of a person going missing, almost as if it's a given due to the individual's circumstances. If the Evaporated were to turn into a Netflix documentary, I'd watch it.
I finished listening to the Evaporated: Gone with the Gods podcast recently, and I give it two thumbs up. Jake Adelstein is one of its hosts, and he's the author of Tokyo Vice, which was adapted into a tv show on Max. It's about the thousands of people who go missing every year in Japan. Many of them decide to disappear because of debt, illegal activity catching up with them, or in the case of some women, they're fleeing from domestic abuse. Very riveting. I found it curious that Japan doesn't maintain a database of missing persons, unlike the US. And Japanese culture generally shrugs at the notion of a person going missing, almost as if it's a given due to the individual's circumstances. If the Evaporated were to turn into a Netflix documentary, I'd watch it.