This nonfiction work follows the testimonies and records of journalists, directors, and announcers who worked in wartime radio, examining how broadcasting reported, or failed to report, the expanding war. It traces how people on the ground internalized state policy and considers the issues that remained after defeat.

What did people in wartime broadcasting think, and what did they leave unsaid?

A work of nonfiction tracing the life of Yun Ja-won, a Korean resident writer who crossed from Korea to Japan in 1946, and the history of his family. Drawing on surviving diaries and documents, interviews with his children, and reporting in places connected to them, it portrays a family living through colonial rule, postwar migration, nationality, poverty, and labor.

Through the footsteps of one clandestine migrant and his family, the book follows more than a century of history linking colonial-era Korea and Japan with postwar Tokyo.