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Authors: Robert S. Boynton
nuclear weapons
Obama, Barack
oil
Okudo, Yukiko
Olympics; 1964 Japan; 1988 Seoul
Omori
Osaka
Panjoy, Anocha
Park, Grace
Park Chung-hee
Park Jung-jin
Parrish, Jerry Wayne
passports; fake
Pearl Harbor, attack on
People Who Went Missing in Paradise
(documentary)
perestroika
Perry, Matthew;
Journals
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition (1876)
Philippines
phosphate
photography; repatriation
Poland
pork
poverty
propaganda; movies
Pulgasari
(movie)
Pyongyang; American defectors in
Pyongyang Central Broadcasting
Pyongyang Declaration
Pyongyang Times
Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies
race; common origins theory; hybrid vs. homogeneous theory of; Japanese classification; origins of; pluralism; Western concept of; “whiteness”
radio; North Korean
Radio Pyongyang
rape
Red Army Faction; airplane hijackings; Consent Mission; Marriage Project; Revolutionary Village; wives
Red Cross
repatriation; discontent; Japanese wives; letters; logistics; motivations; photography; secret messages
Repatriation Cooperative Association
rescue movement
“Restoration of Light of Day”
Revolutionary Village
rice
Righteous War
(movie)
Rodong Sinmun
Romania
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rusk, Dean
Russia; army
Sabae City
Sado Island
Saito, Hiroko
samurai
San Francisco
San Francisco Peace Treaty
Sankei Shimbun
Sato, Katsumi
Sato, Tamiko
Sea of Blood
(movie)
Sea of Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
“seed-bearing strategy”
Seoul; 1988 Olympics
September 11 terrorist attacks
Shibata, Yasuhiro
Shikamachi
Shikoku
Shin Films
Shin Kwang-soo
Shin Sang-ok
Shiokaze
Shrieteh, Siham
Shukan Bunshun
shutai
Siberia
Singapore
Sino-Japanese War
slavery
Smile, Samuel,
Self-Help
Snow, Edgar,
Red Star over China
Soga, Hitomi
Soga, Miyoshi
soju
Sono, Ayoko
Soseki, Natsume
South Korea; abductees; agriculture; China and; as democratic world power; economy; fishermen abducted from; intelligence; Japanese relations with; Korean Air Flight 858 bombing and; military; movies; postwar.
See also
Korea
South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)
Soviet Union; fall of
soybeans
Spain
Stalin, Joseph
Stone Age
Story of a Troop Leader, The
(movie)
suicide
Sunday Project
“Sunshine Policy”
sushi chefs
Taiwan
Tamiya, Takamaro
Tanaka, Hitoshi
television
Terakoshi, Takeshi
Terakoshi, Tomoe
terrorism
Thailand
Thirty-Eighth Parallel
“Three-Nos”
Tiananmen Square massacre
Tokyo
Tokyo Anthropological Society
Tokyo Broadcasting System
Tokyo University
Torii, Ryuzo;
Notes of an Old Student
tourism
trade
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Tsuboi, Shogoro
tuberculosis
TV Asahi
Tylor, Edward Burnett
Uimin, Prince
United Nations
United States; American defectors in Pyongyang; dollar; industrialization; interest in Japan; Korean War; military; movies; postwar occupation of Japan; September 11 terrorist attacks; World War II
Unsan, 1000
Unsung Heroes
(movie)
“untouchables”
Unyo
vegetables
Vietnam War
war, culture of
Watanabe, Tsutomu
Westernization
women; abducted for American military defectors; comfort; Consent Mission; Marriage Project; rape of; Red Army Faction wives; as terrorists
Wonsan
Workers’ Party of Korea
World War II
Wright, Lawrence
Yamanashi
Yao, Megumi
Yasukuni Shrine
Yokohama
Yokota, Megumi
Yokota, Sakie
Yokota, Shigeru
Yokoyama, Shito
Yongbyon nuclear reactor
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Zainichi
zoology
Robert S. Boynton
’s journalism has appeared in
The New Yorker
,
The Atlantic Monthly
,
The New York Times Magazine
, and elsewhere. He is the author of
The New New Journalism
and directs the Literary Reportage program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. You can sign up for email updates
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Map of Japan and North Korea
Key People
Prologue
1. Welcome to the Invitation-Only Zone
2. The Meiji Moment: Japan Becomes Modern
4. Japan and Korea’s “Common Origins”
7. From Emperor Hirohito to Kim Il-sung
9. The Repatriation Project: From Japan to North Korea
10. Neighbors in the Invitation-Only Zone
11. Stolen Childhoods: Megumi and Takeshi
15. A Story Too Strange to Believe
16. The Great Leader Dies, a Nation Starves
18. Kim and Koizumi in Pyongyang
19. Returning Home: From North Korea to Japan
Epilogue
Time Line
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Also by Robert S. Boynton
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2016 by Robert S. Boynton
Maps copyright © 2016 by Adrienne Ottenberg
All rights reserved
First edition, 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Boynton, Robert S., 1963–
The invitation-only zone: the true story of North Korea’s abduction project / Robert S. Boynton.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-17584-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71266-2 (e-book)
1. Kidnapping—Korea (North)—History—20th century. 2. Kidnapping victims—Korea (North). 3. Kidnapping victims—Japan. I. Title.
HV6604.K6 B68 2016
364.15'408995605193—dc23