Hi, this is Jess Betancourt, the host of DNAID.

What if someone close to you just vanished one day?

That happens to tens of thousands of families a year in Japan.

Jake Edelstein, author of Tokyo Vice, has been covering Japan's criminal underworld for 30 years

and has seen more people disappear than he'd care to, including his old

accountant, who, as it turns out, was getting up to a lot more than taxes. On Campside Media's

latest podcast series, The Evaporated, Gone with the Gods, Jake and his co-host Shoko

Plambeck tried to track him down, and along the way, they explore

what's really happening with Japan's mysterious missing people. There's a name for it,

Johassu Shah, or The Evaporated. Subscribers to the binge can hear the entire series

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podcasts. I'm going to play a clip for you right now. Steve thought right away, that was a strange

place for the meeting, especially since Morimoto's accounting firm was on the other side of Tokyo,

which is also where he lived, supposedly.

At that point, he told us he was living in Tachikau area, which is far and removed from

Shinjuku. But of course you'd go to your friend if they need help. So we went there and met him,

and we talked to him for a while. But again, this was another red flag for us because we're never

comfortable going down to have a meeting in that area. So there, after a meeting? Yeah.

He said, I have a meeting with my client. I didn't necessarily believe him on that because, again,

you don't meet clients in that area. You don't do it, especially when you're talking to county

and the nature of that area.

I can just picture Steve and Hana after Modi Moto walks out of this place,

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