On November 15, 1977, 13 year-old Megumi Yokota disappeared without a trace while on her way home from school. Twenty years later a newspaper reve...
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Aug 16, 2010
The loss of a daughter is a tragedy I can barely contemplate; I imagine losing my own daughter, I remember being wrenched away from my own mother when I was sent to boarding school—these are surely infinitesimal shadows of the pain the Yokota's feel each and every day. A literal translation of the Japanese title for this book is "Megumi, your mother will certainly save you." That is what the book is about, Mrs Yokota's determination to save her daughter. I'm sure she wrote it in the h
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May 13, 2009
This summer, CNN’s Anderson Cooper ran a story that was both shocking in its immediacy and haunting with its heart-wrenching tale. Four years ago, North Korea admitted to a program of abducting Japanese citizens in the hopes of training them as spies during the Cold War. Sakie Yokota lost her thirteen-year-old daughter, Megumi, in 1977 to this insidious scheme. This is the story of one woman’s personal struggle to find the daughter who was so cruelly taken from her and her transformation from ha
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Mar 08, 2009
Steph Su
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In November 1977, 13-year-old Megumi was walking home from her school’s badminton practice when she disappeared into thin air. For over two decades, her parents and twin younger brothers had no lead as to what happened to her. After raised hopes and disappointments, fake leads and hundreds of hours of reminiscence, they discover that Megumi had been kidnapped by North Korean agents, and that she is living in North Korea.
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Oct 06, 2009
Charise
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This book is a memoir of a mother's experience losing her daughter to kidnappers, then discovering that her daughter was abducted not just by a criminal but by a foreign government. It's translated from Japanese, and unfortunately, it does read that way; the phrasing and word-choices are somewhat dry and resemble the speech of a Japanese interpreter. It's sad that the English isn't more natural, because the story is touching and the emotion is heart-felt. One shouldn't read this book expecting a
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Dec 18, 2011
Valarie
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This story is tragic, and the plight of Japanese people abducted by North Korean agents really deserves more attention. I felt like this memoir could have done a better job of describing the author's emotions at having lost her daughter. In addition, the text was somewhat disorganized, making it difficult to follow the many different people's stories that Yokota tries to include.
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