![]() The way his family were treated in North Korea, as Japanese ‘hostiles’ makes me think of some of the accounts I’ve read of people who came to the UK from the Caribbean during the Windrush, promised better lives for them and their families, but subjected to abhorrent racism as soon as they set foot on land. Some of the scenes he describes are images I can’t get out of my head even now. This book is very, very sad and what the author and his family have had to go through is harrowing and no one should have to go through things like this. ![]() Through Ishikawa’s eyes we are given insight into day-to-day life in North Korea, including schooling, career options and fatherhood. I didn’t know anything about this ‘voluntary migration’ that Ishikawa’s family were a part of before reading this book. The country is sold to them as the promised land, with work and homes for everyone, but when they get there, they find it is anything but. ![]() ![]() We follow Masaji Ishikawa, the son of a Japanese mother and a Korean father, from his childhood throughout his adult life.īorn and raised in Japan, the family are encouraged by Japanese, North Korean and American governments to migrate to North Korea, as many other Korean and Japanese people were at the time. This was an altogether harrowing autobiography. ![]()
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