Itami, Hyogo Pref. – In his early 70s, Koji Uchida began to vanish.
The first time, the police found him sitting in front of a vending machine 17 miles (27 kilometers) from home. He began to go missing regularly, once wandering for two days before turning up at a stranger’s apartment, hungry and barely able to remember his name, his mind clouded by dementia.
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