Masaji Ishikawa reflects on life under a totalitarian regime. He describes how language is twisted, how he survived checkpoints, and how his happy childhood in Mizonokuchi contrasts with later poverty. He also talks about faking compliance to stay alive and his lingering hope to find his missing children.
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North Korean defector... | Masaji Ishikawa or Do Changsun is a North Korean defector and author on Zainichi heritage. Ishikawa was thirteen years old when he moved from Japan to North Korea in 1960. His father was Zainichi Korean and his mother was Japanese. Ishikawa later defected from North Korea in 1996 via the Yalu river,
