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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452948403321

Autore

Morris-Suzuki Tessa

Titolo

Exodus to North Korea : shadows from Japan's Cold War / / Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-7425-5441-4

0-7425-7938-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Asian voices

Disciplina

325/.2520519309045

Soggetti

Return migration - Korea (North)

Repatriation - Korea (North)

Koreans - Japan - History

Cold War

Electronic books.

Korea (North) Foreign relations Japan

Japan Foreign relations Korea (North)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Departures -- Morning sun -- Hostages to history -- Geneva : city of dreams -- Borderlines -- Across the East Sea -- To the field of dancing children -- The borders within -- Stratagems -- The shadow ministry -- The tip of the iceberg -- The Pyongyang conference -- Special mission to the far East -- The first "return" -- Resolution 20 -- Accord -- Dream homes on the Daedong -- The diplomats' diaries -- From Geneva to Calcutta -- Silent partners -- A guide for Mr. Returnee -- Arrivals -- Toward the promised land -- Return to nowhere -- The willow trees of Niigata.

Sommario/riassunto

Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the ""return"" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. For most, their new home proved a place of



poverty and hardship; for thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also casts new light on the politics of the Cold War, and on present-day tensions between North Korea and the rest