In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 photo, men walk in Kamagasaki, Osaka, western Japan. Japan’s biggest slum, Kamagasaki, is visible just blocks from bustling restaurants and shops in Osaka, the country’s ...

More than 80,000 people in Japan go missing every year. Osaka's Kamagasaki slum is where some people go when they don't want to be found.

Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan go missing on purpose to get a second shot at life. The South China Morning Post spoke to two men who have disappeared from their old lives. "I was ...

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