Vanished (eBook)

The &quote;Evaporated People&quote; of Japan in Stories and Photographs

Lena Mauger (Autor)

Stephane Remael (Fotograf)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
272 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0828-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Lna Mauger and photographer Stphane 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 tsunamiAnd yet, as exotic and foreign as their stories might appear to an outsiders eyes, the human experience shared by the interviewees remains powerfully universal.

Autor

Léna Mauger is an avid traveler and journalist for the magazines XXI and 6mois. She first explored the subject of Japan’s “evaporated people” for a piece in XXI.Stéphane Remael is a documentary photographer. He has traveled the world to cover stories in Bolivia, Georgia, China, Nepal, and Morocco, among other places. His work has been published in numerous French and international newspapers and magazines such as Newsweek, TIME, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2016
• Übersetzer: Brian Phalen
• Zusatzinfo: 43 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: abandon • Abandoned Children • abandoned wife • abandoning children • Abandonment • Asian culture • Asian portraiture • asian society • business culture • businessmen • citadel • credit card debt • crime in Japan • debt • disappeared people • documentary photography • effects of tsunami in Japan • evaporated people • Fukushima • Human geography • Humanity • Japan • Japanese • Japanese anthropology • Japanese bureaucarcy • Japanese businessmen • Japanese culture • japanese life • Japanese photography • Japanese Society • Japanese sociology • Japanese tsunami • Japan travel • johatsu • modern citadels • people who disappeared • photography • Portrait Photography • portraiture • Poverty • poverty portraits • reprogramming camps • running away • Shame • shaming • shaming in Japanese culture • social investigation • social journalism • Social Sciences • Suicide • suicide cliffs • Tojinbo • Tokyo • Tokyo culture • Tokyo society • Toyota City • Toyota factory • Travel
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0828-6 / 1510708286
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0828-0 / 9781510708280