One mystery is solved – Morimoto is alive. But finding him raises a question: Do those who disappear to start a new life have the right to stay missing?

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A series of evaporations on the western coastline of Japan eluded families and investigators for nearly 25 years. One theory – international espionage.

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Tiphaine Veron, a French tourist, went missing in 2018. Understanding the circumstances around her disappearance –and the lasting ripple effect of the investigation–leads Jake and Shoko to Nikko.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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