Research Catalog

Title

Destiny : the secret operations of the Yodogō exiles / by Kōji Takazawa ; edited by Patricia G. Steinhoff with the translation assistance of Lina J. Terrell, Ryoko Yamamoto, Kazumi Higashikubo, Shinji Kojima, Eiko Saeki, Kazutoh Ishida, and Midori Ishida.

Author

Takazawa, Kōji

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors

• Steinhoff, Patricia G., 1941-
• Terrell, Lina
• Yamamoto, Ryoko, 1969-
• Higashikubo, Kazumi
• Kojima, Shinji
• Saeki, Eiko
• Ishida, Kazutoh
• Ishida, Midori

Description

xvi, 452 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

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. The North Korean government accepted the hijackers--who became known in the media as the Yodogō group, based on the name of the hijacked plane--and two years later they announced their conversion to juche, North Korea's new political ideology. Little was heard from the exiles until 1988, when a member of Yodogō was unexpectedly arrested in Japan, and communications with the group opened up in the context of his trial. As a former Red Army Faction member, journalist Kōji Takazawa made several trips to North Korea, re-established 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 Yodogō 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 Yodogō Exiles offers Kōji Takazawa's powerful story of how he exposed the Yodogō 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 Yodogō hijackers. Embedded in his pursuit toward what truly happened to the Yodogō 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.

Uniform Title

Shukumei. English

Alternative Title

Shukumei.

Subjects

• Nihon Sekigun
• Radicals > Japan
• Korea (North)
• Japanese > Korea (North)
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-444) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Japanese.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Classical Music Coffee House -- 2. Sky Pirates -- 3. Airport in Disguise -- 4. Exile into Darkness -- 5. Pyongyang -- 6. Ideological Remolding -- 7. Kim's Golden Eggs -- 8. The Secret Invitation -- 9. Secret Crossing -- 10. Japanese Wives in North Korea -- 11. Operation Marriage -- 12. Japanese Village of the Revolution -- 13. Disappearances in Madrid -- 14. Proof of Life -- 15. The Trap in London -- 16. Tivoli Summer -- 17. Smuggling Syndicate -- 18. Two-Faced Janus -- 19. Contact -- 20. Vienna Operation -- 21. Shadows in the Background -- 22. Whereabouts Unknown -- 23. The House of the Bayberry Tree -- 24. Ideological Conflict -- 25. Escape to the Sea -- 26. Worthless Fabrications -- 27. Infiltration into Japan -- 28. Betrayal -- 29. Campaign in Japan -- 30. Retreat -- 31. Loss of the Homeland -- 32. Labyrinths of Time -- 33. Pact of Silence.

Call Number

JFE 18-9558

ISBN

• 9780824872786
• 0824872789
• 9780824872793
• 0824872797

LCCN

• 2016059830
• 40027346512

OCLC

968212134

Author

Takazawa, Kōji, author.

Title

Destiny : the secret operations of the Yodogō exiles / by Kōji Takazawa ; edited by Patricia G. Steinhoff with the translation assistance of Lina J. Terrell, Ryoko Yamamoto, Kazumi Higashikubo, Shinji Kojima, Eiko Saeki, Kazutoh Ishida, and Midori Ishida.

Publisher

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-444) and index.

Language

Translated from the Japanese.

Added Author

Steinhoff, Patricia G., 1941- editor.

Terrell, Lina, translator.

Yamamoto, Ryoko, 1969- translator.

Higashikubo, Kazumi, translator.

Kojima, Shinji, translator.

Saeki, Eiko, translator.

Ishida, Kazutoh, translator.

Ishida, Midori, translator.

Other Standard Identifier

40027346512

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9558