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Destiny - The Secret Operations of the Yodog Exiles (Hardcover)
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Destiny - The Secret Operations of the Yodog Exiles (Hardcover)
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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 Yodog? 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 Yodog? 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 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.
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