10 episodes
Evaporated: Gone with the Gods The Binge
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4.8 • 72 Ratings
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What if someone close to you just … vanished one day? That happens to tens of thousands of families a year in Japan, and it happened to Jake Adelstein, too, back in 2018 — when his accountant disappeared, just before tax day. Adelstein, the author of Tokyo Vice, and co-host Shoko Plambeck go in search of that missing accountant, and take us on a journey into the fascinating and bizarre world of Japan’s johatsu, or “evaporated” people.
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Episode 1: The Missing Accountant
Morimoto is Jake’s trusted accountant and friend. So when Steve and Becky need an accountant, Jake is more than happy to recommend Morimoto. But as time goes on, Steve and Becky start to realize their new accountant might be hiding something. Just when the truth starts to show itself, Morimoto…evaporates.
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Episode 2: Queen of the Night Movers
Jake and Shoko aren’t meeting the CEO of your average moving company. This is Miho Saita, the owner of a yonige–or, night moving–company. Night fleeing, to be precise.
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Episode 3: Sugimoto! You Bastard!
Sugimoto-san is a driver for Saita-san’s yonige company. But he’s also a former client. Who built a huge golf course … and got in way over his head.
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Episode 4: Pay or Sink
Morimoto’s former boss tried to do him a favor, and got into a whole lot of trouble instead. We're talking about angry yakuza clients and charges to his credit card from sugar daddy websites. No sign of Morimoto since.
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Episode 5: Vanishing By The Book
Japan has some very strange –and dark– instructional manuals. Some of them can help you vanish…or commit the perfect crime.
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Episode 6: Sakura Sachiko Does Not Exist
Jake and Shoko leave Tokyo to go to a big-shot detective school in Sapporo. They learn how to solve missing persons cases — from some of the best detectives in Japan.
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Customer Reviews
Fascinating
I’ve long been a huge fan of Japan and Japanese culture. I had a good fortune to go there in the summer of 2021 for work. I never felt safer anywhere as a woman on my own. I felt like I could wake up at 2:30 in the morning and walk around the city and feel completely safe. After listening to this podcast, I understand so much more of the darker side of life in Japan. I love all the very specific words like death by work such a fascinating tragic and sometimes very funny show. Thank you.
Wonderfully unique
This podcast is true crime but unlike so many other true crime podcasts. It’s intriguing but doesn’t try overly hard to lead you to that conclusion. I think we’ve all felt backed into a corner with the urge to leave everything and everyone behind to run away from your reality. But I think this podcast shows it’s never that simple.
Riveting and heartbreaking.. superbly done
Riveting and heartbreaking. I’m already a fan of Jake Adelstein because of the book Tokyo Vice. I was curious about this podcast and gave it a go. I was hooked within the first couple of minutes. It’s exceptional. Superb writing and all around fantastic.
Shoko is a great companion to Jake. The stories do bring tears to your eyes, i.e. the older woman, a wife who basically a slave in her own home for 35 years destroyed me, but she won in the end. The stories of the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.. beyond the imagination. These are deep, deep stories that need to be told. This needs to seriously be considered for a tv series. Jake, Shoko, you have to do many, many more episodes of this. 9 episodes is simply like edamame.
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