[학술논문] Utsunomiya Tokuma (MP, 1906-2000) and the Abduction Case of Kim Tae-jung (1973) : Pushing Toward Policy Change in Japanese-Korean Relations
...meaningless in the region. Utsunomiya was a critical figure in the 1973 kidnapping of Kim Tae-jung when South Korea and Japan were in the most strained relations. Furthermore, he acted as a pacifist for
disarmament and criticized the mainstream members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan's ruling party to which he belonged himself until 1978. From then, Utsunomiya continuously denounced the party...