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■ A town where women disappear Narration: Toyoda Yasuo (Kantele announcer), Tanimoto Sena (Kantele announcer) Director: Shibatani Mariko Photography: Nagata Koichi Editing: Tsuda Hisatsugu Producer: Hagiwara Mamoru Kantele "The Document" November 26, 2021 ■ Participating work in the 2021 Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival <The Document official page> https://www.ktv.jp/document/211126.html -------------------------------------------------- "Young women just disappeared. They disappear just by deciding not to return. It's frightening." Nakagai Soji speaks with a stern expression. Until April, he was the mayor of Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, a regional city with a population of about 80,000. When they investigated the "youth recovery rate," the percentage of people who left Toyooka in their teens to go to school or get a job and then returned in their 20s, it was found that women had "disappeared." Why don't women return? "The gender gap is holding us back considerably." This is the answer we came to. The program closely follows the "Gender Gap Countermeasures Office," which was just established in April. During the interview, we heard a number of words that are certainly worthy of the term "male society." "It felt like policies were being decided only by men." "All the neighborhood association presidents were men." "When a woman came forward, there was an atmosphere that there was nothing else." "They assumed that women did not want to advance in their careers." However, in Toyooka, more and more people are now realizing that this situation is strange. In reality, the "gender gap" is a problem that is applicable to the whole of Japan. We interviewed them to find out how change will spread. *Due to copyright restrictions, some content may differ from that of terrestrial broadcasting.