“In assessing the fallout, both political and personal, Boynton is at his most acute. In high politics, this strange episode seems to distill the sensitivities between Japan and both Koreas – people and cultures at once so like, and so unlike, each other. On the human level, the predicament of the Japanese who returned has no good solution: once kidnapped, now caught between two worlds, and even they do not understand why.” — Mary Dejevsky
