Area Guides
Title | Area Guides PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Fodor |
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Release | 1978 |
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Fodor's Japan and Korea 1978
Title | Fodor's Japan and Korea 1978 PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Fodor |
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Pages | 512 |
Release | 1977 |
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Japan and Korea 1978
Title | Japan and Korea 1978 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Fisher |
Publisher | Fodor's Travel Publications |
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Release | 1978-01-01 |
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ISBN | 9780679002895 |
Fodor's 1978 Guide to Japan
Title | Fodor's 1978 Guide to Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Fodor |
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Pages | 512 |
Release | 1978 |
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Diaspora without Homeland
Title | Diaspora without Homeland PDF eBook |
Author | Sonia Ryang |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2009-04-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520916190 |
More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today—the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland.
Oceanic Histories
Title | Oceanic Histories PDF eBook |
Author | David Armitage |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108423183 |
Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.
The Invitation-Only Zone
Title | The Invitation-Only Zone PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Boynton |
Publisher | Atlantic Books Ltd |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2016-01-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782398511 |
During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in 'Invitation Only Zones', high-security detention-centres masked as exclusive areas, on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The objective? To brainwash the abductees with the regime's ideology, and train them to spy on the state's behalf. But the project faltered; when indoctrination failed, the captives were forced to teach North Korean operatives how to pass as Japanese, to help them infiltrate hostile neighbouring nations. For years, the Japanese and North Korean authorities brushed off these disappearances, but in 2002 Kim Jong Il admitted to kidnapping thirteen citizens, returning five of them - the remaining eight were declared dead. In The Invitation Only Zone, Boynton, an investigative journalist, speaks with the abductees, nationalists and diplomats, and crab fishermen, to try and untangle both the kidnappings and the intensely complicated relations between North Korea and Japan. The result is a fierce and fascinating exploration of North Korea's mysterious machinations, and the vexed politics of Northeast Asia.