Two French authors who have stayed in Japan, Thomas B. Reverdy and Eric Faye, have each written a novel on the subject of missing persons in Japan. Thomas B. Reverdy's novel Les Évaporés (2013) describes the voluntary disappearance of a man struggling with the dark affairs surrounding the Fukushima disaster. These voluntary disappearances, known as jôhatsu (“evaporated”), affect around 100,000 people a year in Japan and are rarely mentioned in public. Eric Faye addresses in his novel Éclipses japonaises (2016), which is closely based on historical reality, the subject of Japanese citizens kidnapped by the North Korean secret services, the rachi, a phenomenon long overlooked by the Japanese authorities. By thus tackling the burning societal subjects of Japan, Eric Faye (who has written several novels and essays on Japan) and Thomas B. Reverdy, through these political themes, renew the approach of Japan through the French-speaking literature which had gradually opened up to the realities of Japanese culture since the 1970s.