Destiny: The Secret Operations of the YodogÅ Exiles
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (882 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XDYV8KN |
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| Number of Pages | : | 453 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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 Kji 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. 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. An example of superb investigative journalism, Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodog Exiles offers Kji Takazawa’s powerful story of how he exposed the Yodog group’s involvement in the kidnapping and l
Steinhoff (Editor) Patricia G. Steinhoff is professor of sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mnoa.. He is a leading authority on the Japanese New Left and has close ties to some of its surviving participants and institutions.Patricia G. Kji Takazawa (Author) Kji Takazawa is a former student activist who later went on to become a prolific author, editor, and independen
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 Yodogo group members, makes this important reading for those who want to understand radical revolutionary movements, particularly in East Asia.-- "Publishers Weekly"