Léna Mauger Libros

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.

XXI N14 DOSSIER: Nos meilleurs vieux. Lettre ouverte au quatrieme age . Par Patrick de Saint Exupery. La cavale des bonnes soeurs. Par Sylvie Caster. Les vieux voleurs. Par Lena Mauger. Un reve de vieilles dames. Par Hannelore Cayre. PORTFOLIO: Les enfants de l'unite 33. Par Jean-Jerome Destouches. RECITS: Voyage dans un pays a venir. Par Jonathan Littell. Le Facteur de Kaboul. Par Justine Augier. Le roi des contrebandiers. Par Marion Touboul. Une place au soleil. Par Gabriel Mascaro. L'americain de Mao - Enquete sur Sydney Rittenberg. ENTRETIEN: Charles-Edouard Vincent, fondateur d'Emmaus Defi. Par Alain Lewkowicz. RECIT GRAPHIQUE: La route du kif. Par Renaud de Heyn. VECU: J'avais raison d'y croire . Par Isabelle Lambret.