Exodus to North Korea : shadows from Japan's Cold War / / Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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| Autore: |
Morris-Suzuki Tessa
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| Titolo: |
Exodus to North Korea : shadows from Japan's Cold War / / Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 325/.2520519309045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Return migration - Korea (North) |
| Repatriation - Korea (North) | |
| Koreans - Japan - History | |
| Cold War | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Korea (North) Foreign relations Japan |
| Japan Foreign relations Korea (North) | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Exodus to North Korea |
| ISBN: | 0-7425-5441-4 |
| 0-7425-7938-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814423203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)