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Le cas de la Corée du Sud bouleverse les études traitant de la corruption qui voient en celle-ci un frein au développement économique et social (Blackburn, Bose et Haque 2004, Sarte 2000, Riviera-Batiz 2001). Corruption élevée et régimes politiques autoritaires sont d’ailleurs souvent associés (Mauro 1995, Lambsdroff 2003, Wei 2000). Les indice de perception de la corruption publiés par Transparency International montrent une corrélation proportionnelle entre forte corruption et sous-développement ou encore entre corruption élevée et régime politique autoritaire. Pourtant, si la corruption devait avoir des effets nuisibles sur le développement, la Corée du Sud n’aurait pas dû connaitre un tel essor économique, d’autant qu’il a débuté dans les années 1960 sous un régime autoritaire et militaire dont les faits de corruption sont considérables (You …

Research Framework: When care is often considered the concern of others, the caregiving role is most often considered a female duty. In South Korea, where the gender division of labor is clearly apparent, daughters-in-law tend to be the primary caregiver for elderly relatives who require long-term care.Objectives: This research aims to show not only the experience of primary caregivers caring for elderly dependents (mothers-in-law) at home, but also how the care they provide is invisible within the family and even society.Methodology: We conducted semi-directed interviews in South Korea with nine daughters-in-law from the baby-boom generation. Four took care of their mother-in-law at home, and five took care of their mother-in-law at their own homes until they died. Results: This research founded on the state of their experiences and the imbalances of tasks required of them including: task overload, conflicts between caregiver and care receiver, difficulty facing the symptoms of illness, and lack of help and recognition. Regarding the quest for stability between imbalance and equilibrium, we look into the concerns of positive feelings and self-efficacy, religion, emotional restraint, distancing, and reorganization of daily life and individual resources. We also looked into the support of secondary caregivers and the relationship between caregivers and care receiver in relational resources. Conclusions: This article concludes by showing that Long-Term Care Insurance tends to lead primary caregivers to enter the care work market as a certified family care provider, but the form of the system is rather abnormal and questionable. Contribution: This study contributes to discretely disclosing the singular experience of Korean primary caregivers in the provision of care for their elderly dependent relatives at home.

Keywords: care, genre, aidante principale, belle-fille, proche âgé dépendant, soins de longue durée, Corée du Sud, care, gender, primary caregiver, daughter-in-law, elderly dependent relative, long-term care, certified family care provider, South Korea

Since the end of 1950s, the Japanese nuclear policy has consisted in keeping the legal option open for the development of the "defensive" nuclear weapons and maintaining a nuclear potential. The motivation of this" open nuclear option" of Japan would be mainly the development of the nuclear force of China. The us retreat of all the ground-launched and submarine-launched tactical nuclear weapons in 1991 implied the end of the age of dependence on tactical nuclear weapons for "war-fighting" in Asia. The conventional deterrence would already be sufficient for maintaining the stability of the East Asia. The mission of the extended nuclear deterrence of the United States could be reduced to Us vital role for countering only the nuclear attack of other country, not for any conventional attack. The controversies about the "antimissile defense" have influenced the security relationship between China and Japan. The important strategic significance of the antimissile defense for Beijing would be that a strategy of the first strike against China would be easier to consider. A theater missile defense in Japan would be less challenging for China and would be useful against the threat of missiles from North Korea. Nonetheless, a strategic missile defense could have a destabilizing impact on Sino-Japanese security relations. The Japanese nuclear policy would be a hind of "recessive deterrence" which operates by the potential and the possibility of developing nuclear weapons. The nuclear crisis in Korea provides a chance to observe the working dynamic of this deterrence. Owing to the worry about the nuclear proliferation of Japan, Tokyo finds it appropriate to ask Beijing to prevent the nuclear development of the North Korea and to maintain the credibility of the extended deterrence of the United States.

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.

Keywords: Thomas B. Reverdy, Éric Faye, jôhatsu, rachi, yukue fumei, Corée du Nord, Thomas B. Reverdy, Eric Faye, jôhatsu, rachi, yukue fumei, North Corea