The Evaporated: Gone With the Gods is co-hosted by crime writer Jake Adelstein (“Tokyo Vice”), and the Japanese-American journalist Shoko Plambeck. Gone with the Gods is an investigative probe into the Japanese phenomenon of johatsu, or evaporation — random and unexplained disappearances.

In The Evaporated, the Tokyo-based team of Adelstein and Plambeck begin with the sudden disappearance of Adelstein’s accountant, who vanished one tax season and opened the door to an unpredictable mystery. The resulting journey takes our two hosts into the mysterious realm of Japan's "evaporated" people, the tens of thousands who go missing every year for reasons that are often unique to Japan. Some, they’ll find out, vanish on purpose.

The nine-episode series, where each episode is about a hour, explores the ripple effects of these evaporations throughout Japanese society, from “night movers,” the underground industry devoted to helping people disappear, to the personal and societal incentives that encourage vanishing, to how and where the vanished survive in Japan. Gone With the Gods provides a fascinating look at the skills it takes to both disappear and find missing people with a sprawling, entertaining narrative led by Adelstein and Plambeck, a journalist with her own history of "evaporating."

The Evaporated: Gone With the Gods is co-hosted by crime writer Jake Adelstein (“Tokyo Vice”), and the Japanese-American journalist Shoko Plambeck. Gone with the Gods is an investigative probe into the Japanese phenomenon of johatsu, or evaporation — random and unexplained disappearances.
In The Evaporated, the Tokyo-based team of Adelstein and Plambeck begin with the sudden disappearance of Adelstein’s accountant, who vanished one tax season and opened the door to an unpredictable mystery. The resulting journey takes our two hosts into the mysterious realm of Japan's "evaporated" people, the tens of thousands who go missing every year for reasons that are often unique to Japan. Some, they’ll find out, vanish on purpose.
The nine-episode series, where each episode is about a hour, explores the ripple effects of these evaporations throughout Japanese society, from “night movers,” the underground industry devoted to helping people disappear, to the personal and societal incentives that encourage vanishing, to how and where the vanished survive in Japan. Gone With the Gods provides a fascinating look at the skills it takes to both disappear and find missing people with a sprawling, entertaining narrative led by Adelstein and Plambeck, a journalist with her own history of "evaporating."

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