Destiny : : The Secret Operations of the Yodogō Exiles / / Kōji Takazawa; ed. by Patricia G. Steinhoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Takazawa, Kōji,
• TeilnehmendeR: Higashikubo, Kazumi.; Ishida, Kazutoh.; Ishida, Midori.; Kojima, Shinji.; Saeki, Eiko.; Terrell, Lina J.; Yamamoto, Ryoko.
• HerausgeberIn: Steinhoff, Patricia G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 32 b&w illustrations, 1 map

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, 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 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- DESTINY -- Prologue -- CHAPTER ONE The Classical Music Coffee House -- CHAPTER TWO Sky Pirates -- CHAPTER THREE Airport in Disguise -- CHAPTER FOUR Exile into Darkness -- CHAPTER FIVE Pyongyang -- CHAPTER SIX Ideological Remolding -- CHAPTER SEVEN Kim's Golden Eggs -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Secret Invitation -- CHAPTER NINE Secret Crossing -- CHAPTER TEN Japanese Wives in North Korea -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Operation Marriage -- CHAPTER TWELVE Japanese Village of the Revolution -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Disappearances in Madrid -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Proof of Life -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Trap in London -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Tivoli Summer -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Smuggling Syndicate -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Two-Faced Janus -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Contact -- CHAPTER TWENTY Vienna Operation -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Shadows in the Background -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Whereabouts Unknown -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The House of the Bayberry Tree -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Ideological Conflict -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Escape to the Sea -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Worthless Fabrications -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Infiltration into Japan -- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Betrayal -- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Campaign in Japan -- CHAPTER THIRTY Retreat -- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Loss of the Homeland -- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Labyrinths of Time -- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Pact of Silence -- Epilogue -- Author's Afterword for the English Translation -- Editor's Afterword: The Yodogō Saga Continues -- Timeline -- Bibliography -- Index