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Loading... The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographsby Léna Mauger
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Sujet intéressant mais le livre n'a pas réussi à retenir mon attention. Le style d'écriture est un peu étrange. On passe de l'écriture journalistique dans certains chapitres à une écriture ampoulée pleine de formules un peu clichées ("A Kama, les regrets n'ont pas leur place"). Beaucoup de hors sujets également comme l'épilogue qui parle uniquement de Fukushima (???). Un chapitre sur les otakus, un autre sur une falaise connue pour être un lieu de suicide. Le sujet est évidemment délicat et compliqué à cerner, mais je n'ai pas l'impression d'en savoir plus sur les évaporés du Japon au bout des 240 pages. L'approche est très superficielle. Certaines des photographies sont par contre magnifiques. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Every year, nearly one hundred thousand Japanese vanish without a trace. Known as the johatsu, or the "evaporated," they are often driven by shame and hopelessness, leaving behind lost jobs, disappointed families, and mounting debts. In The Vanished, journalist Léna Mauger and photographer Stéphane Remael uncover the human faces behind the phenomenon through reportage, photographs, and interviews with those who left, those who stayed behind, and those who help orchestrate the disappearances. Their quest to learn the stories of the johatsu weaves its way through: A Tokyo neighborhood so notorious for its petty criminal activities that it was literally erased from the maps Reprogramming camps for subpar bureaucrats and businessmen to become "better" employees The charmless citadel of Toyota City, with its iron grip on its employees The "suicide" cliffs of Tojinbo, patrolled by a man fighting to save the desperate The desolation of Fukushima in the aftermath of the tsunami And yet, as exotic and foreign as their stories might appear to an outsider's eyes, the human experience shared by the interviewees remains powerfully universal. No library descriptions found. |
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