food; aid; rationing; shortages; sushi
France
freedom
Fujimoto, Kenji; I was Kim Jong Il’s Chef
Fukui, Takako
Fukuoka
Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown
Fukuzawa, Yukichi; All the Countries of the World; “On Leaving Asia”
Funabashi, Yoichi
General Sherman
Germany
Godzilla (movie)
Gorbachev, Mikhail
gossip
Great Britain
gulag
Hachiya, Mayumi
Hachiya, Shinichi
Hangul alphabet
Hara, Tadaaki
Harvard University
Hasebe, Kotondo; The Formation of the Japanese People
Hasuike, Kaoru; abduction of; Back to the Peninsula; life in captivity; reeducation of; return to Japan
Hasuike, Katsuya
Hasuike, Shigeyo
Hasuike, Toru
Hasuike, Yukiko; life in captivity; return to Japan
Headquarters for the Abduction Issue
Hearn, Lafcadio
Hiroshima
Holland
homogeneous race theory
Hong Kong
Hungary
Hwang Jang-yop
hybrid race theory
Indochina
Indonesia
industry
intermarriage
International Institute of the Juche Idea
Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea
Invitation-Only Zone; adapting to North Korea; arranged marriages; breeding program; children; famine; gossip; Japanese–North Korean negotiations over; “leisure activities”; life in captivity; “lifestyle reviews”; media on (chap. 21); minders; neighbors in; reeducation; return of abductees to Japan; as statecraft; stolen childhoods; trips outside. See also abduction project; Japanese abductees
Iran
Iraq
iron
Ishidaka, Kenji; Kim Jong-il’s Kidnapping Command; Paradise Betrayed
Ishihara, Shintaro
Ishioka, Toru
Italy
Jackson, Michael
Jakarta
Jang Jin-sung, Dear Leadern
Japan; Allied occupation of; annexation of Korea; anthropology; assimilationist policies; colonialism; common origins theory; Communism; culture; economy; education; emperor system; evidence of abduction project; homogeneous race theory; hybrid race theory; industry; Kim Il-sung’s campaigns against; Korean culture appropriated by; Korean population in; market reforms; Meiji era; military; modernization of; negotiations with North Korea over abduction issue; normalization of North Korean relations with; passports; population decline; postwar; racial classification; relations with South Korea; repatriation movement; return of abductees to; samurai; Sino-Japanese War; sushi chefs; 2011 earthquake; unemployment; union movement; U.S. interest in; Westernization of; World War II. See also Japanese abductees
Japan Airlines Flight 351, hijacking of
Japanese abductees; adapting to North Korea; arranged marriages; breeding program; children of; Consent Mission; cover stories; deaths; escapes; famine; Japanese–North Korean negotiations over; journals of; “leisure activities”; life in captivity; locations of abductions; media on (chap. 21); neighbors; payment of; reeducation of; rescue movement; return to Japan; as statecraft; stolen childhoods; suicides; trips outside IOZ; Megumi Yokota. See also abduction project; Invitation-Only Zone; specific abductees
Japanese Imperial Army
Japanese Imperial Navy
Japanese language
Japanese National Police
Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty
Japan-Korea Treaty of Amity
Japan–North Korea Friendship Association
Japan Times
Japan-U.S. Treaty of Amity and Commerce
Jeju Island
Jenkins, Charles Robert; The Reluctant Communist
Johnston, Eric
juche
Jung Yon
Kaesong Broadcasting
Kameda
kamikaze
Kammu, Emperor
Kanko
Kashiwazaki
Kazakhstan
Khrushchev, Nikita
kimchi
Kim Dae-jung
Kim Eun-gyong
Kim Hyon-hui
Kim Il-sung; anti-Japanese policies; cult of personality; death of; guerrilla campaign; juche philosophy; Marriage Project and; “On Transporting Intellectuals from South Korea”; Red Army Faction; repatriation movement and
Kim Il-sung University
Kim Jong-il; abduction project and; first public appearance; movie industry and; negotiations over abduction project; On the Art of the Cinema; On the Juche Idea; rise to power
Kim Jong-suk
Kim Jong-un
Kim Young-nam
Kim Yu-chol
Kisen, Kawasaki
kisha clubs
Kobe
Koizumi, Junichiro
Kojima, Harunori
Kojong, King
Konishi, Takahiro
Korea; annexed by Japan; assimilation; comfort women; common origins theory; culture; economy; industry; Japanese colonialism; modernization; postwar; race theory; repatriation movement; reunification; society; World War II. See also North Korea; South Korea
Korean Air Flight 858, bombing of
Korean Institute for National Unification
Korean language
Korean War
Korea Research Institute
Kunitake, Kume
Kuroda, Sakiko
Kyoto
language; coded; Japanese; Korean; training
Lebanon
Lee Jae-geun
Lenin, Nikolai
“Let’s Find New Land!” campaign
Liberty
“lifestyle reviews”
literacy
London
MacArthur, Douglas
Macau
mahjong
Malaysia
Manchuria
Mao Zedong
Marriage Project
martial arts
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Masako, Princess
meat
media; on abduction project (chap. 21); Japanese; North Korean; on repatriation; self-censorship agreement. See also radio; specific publications; television
Meiji Restoration
Mindan
minders
Mr. X
Modern Korea
Modern Korea Institute
Mongolia
Mongols
Mori, Yoriko
Mori, Yoshiro
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa; Exodus in North Korea; Japan Day by Day
Morse, Edward Sylvester (chap. 2); The Shell Mounds of Omori; “Traces of an Early Race in Japan”
Mount Myohyang
Mount Paektu
movies; abductees and; American; North Korean; propaganda; repatriation
multiculturalism
Murayama, Prime Minister
Murray, Dr. David
Myers, B. R.
Nagasaki
Nampo
National Congress of Industrial Unions
natural selection
neighbors
New Guinea
New Left
New York Times
NHK
Niigata
Niigata Nippo
Niigata University
Nitobe, Inazo
Nobusuke, Kishi
Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
North Korea; abduction as statecraft; American defectors in; anti-Japanese policies; caste system; Communism; culture of war; death of Kim Il-sung; economy; famine; Five-Year Plan; guerrilla army; housing; intelligence service; Japanese colonialism; juche; life of abductees in; life expectancy; marriage ceremony; military; movies; negotiations with
Japan over abduction issue; normalization of Japanese relations with; nuclear weapons; Red Army Faction; repatriates; Revolutionary Village; sanctions on; society; spies; terrorism. See also abduction project; Invitation-Only Zone; Korea
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
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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 here.
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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
3. Reunited in North Korea
4. Japan and Korea’s “Common Origins”
5. Adapting to North Korea
6. Abduction as Statecraft
7. From Emperor Hirohito to Kim Il-sung
8. Developing a Cover Story
9. The Repatriation Project: From Japan to North Korea
10. Neighbors in the Invitation-Only Zone
11. Stolen Childhoods: Megumi and Takeshi
12. An American in Pyongyang
13. Terror in the Air
14. Kim’s Golden Eggs
15. A Story Too Strange to Believe
16. The Great Leader Dies, a Nation Starves
17. Negotiating with Mr. X
18. Kim and Koizumi in Pyongyang
19. Returning Home: From North Korea to Japan
20. An Extended Visit
21. Abduction, Inc.
22. Kaoru Hasuike at Home
Epilogue
Time Line
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Also by Robert S. Boynton
Copyright
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Copyright © 2016 by Robert S. Boynton
Maps copyright © 2016 by Adrienne Ottenberg
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First edition, 2016
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Boynton, Robert S., 1963–
The invitation-only zone: the true story of North Korea’s abduction project / Robert S. Boynton.
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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.
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