Destiny
Kōji Takazawa Patricia G. Steinhoff (Redaktør) Lina Terrell (Oversetter) Ryoko Yamamoto (Oversetter) Kazumi Higashikubo (Oversetter) Shinji Kojima (Oversetter) Eiko Saeki (Oversetter) Kazutoh Ishida (Oversetter) Midori Ishida (Oversetter)
«Takazawa describes how the group, originally part of the Japanese New Left, was systematically brainwashed to be ardent followers of Juche, the official ideology of North Korea as established in 1972 by Kim Il Sung. . . . Takazawa's detailed research, which included numerous trips to North Korea and interviews with Yodog? group members, makes this important reading for those who want to understand radical revolutionary movements, particularly in East Asia.- Publishers Weekly»
In 1970, nine members of a Japanese New Left group called the Red Army Faction hijacked a domestic airliner to North Korea with dreams of acquiring the military training to bring about a revolution in Japan. Les mer
As a former Red Army Faction member, journalist K?ji Takazawa made several trips to North Korea, reestablished his ties to the group's leader Takamaro Tamiya, and helped to publish the group's writings in Japan. After Kim Il Sung revealed that Yodog? members had Japanese wives, Takazawa published a book of interviews with the women, but in the process became suspicious about the romantic stories they told. He also wondered about the members who were missing and learned more details in long, private conversations with Tamiya. After Tamiya's sudden death in 1995, Takazawa launched his own investigation of what the group had actually been doing for two decades, even traveling to Europe to follow traces there.
An example of superb investigative journalism, Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodog? Exiles offers K?ji Takazawa's powerful story of how he exposed the Yodog? group's involvement in the kidnapping and luring of several young Japanese to North Korea, as well as the truth behind their Japanese wives' presence in the country. Takazawa's careful research was validated in 2002, when the North Korean government publicly acknowledged it had kidnapped thirteen Japanese citizens during the 1970s and 1980s, including three people whom Takazawa had connected to the Yodog? hijackers. Embedded in his pursuit toward what truly happened to the Yodog? members is Takazawa's personal reflection of the 1970s, a decade when radical student activism swept Japan, and what it meant to those whose lives were forever changed.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780824872793
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«Takazawa describes how the group, originally part of the Japanese New Left, was systematically brainwashed to be ardent followers of Juche, the official ideology of North Korea as established in 1972 by Kim Il Sung. . . . Takazawa's detailed research, which included numerous trips to North Korea and interviews with Yodog? group members, makes this important reading for those who want to understand radical revolutionary movements, particularly in East Asia.- Publishers Weekly»