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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
.

 

ALSO BY
ROBERT S. BOYNTON

The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

 

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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

 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2016 by Robert S. Boynton

Maps copyright © 2016 by Adrienne Ottenberg

All rights reserved

First edition, 2016

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boynton, Robert S., 1963–

    The invitation-only zone: the true story of North Korea’s abduction project / Robert S. Boynton.
          pages cm
    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.
HV6604.K6 B68 2016
364.15'408995605193—dc23

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