Suita

Failing to find them, later that day he reported the loss to the police station in Suita, where he had gone drinking with colleagues.

The next day, two days after their disappearance, the lost thumb drives resurfaced, still in the same bag, outside an apartment building in Suita.

Part of that task involved moving the residents’ private details from the city’s computers to those of a call center in Suita, a nearby city in the Osaka prefecture, that would help them with the details of the payout.

Nongovernmental organizations are now working to help people such as Suita and Hashimoto transition more seamlessly into rural life.

The first six months were a tough adjustment period for Suita, who started online communities geared toward other younger Japanese residents to help one another through their transitions.