Japanese Women and the War Effort
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No idea.Something to do with schoolgirls.
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The last picture above was a advertising of over-the-counter medicine for stomachache. Briefly the scripts were saying 'We are serving to the nation by keeping your health...'
IJA and IJN had many hired (or mobilized) women as office clerks and call operators in rear area, some of which were uniformed. For example, Kure naval shipyard hired some high school girls for the trace of drawings.
IJA and IJN had many hired (or mobilized) women as office clerks and call operators in rear area, some of which were uniformed. For example, Kure naval shipyard hired some high school girls for the trace of drawings.
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Thanks hisashi.
From youtube
Floral Japan 1937
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225758/
From youtube
Floral Japan 1937
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225758/
Fitzpatrick shows the loves of flowers including tulips but also cherry blossoms in Japan, and then shows how the love of flower is mirrored in the dressing and coiffuring of women in the country. The hairdos of Japanese ladies were supposed to tell you everything about them (married, single, widowed, childless, having children). So was the kimono, but even more the fancy styled obi (sash) which was to show social class and wealth. So you do learn something still from this travelogue, though how much of it is still relevant is another matter.
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Photo from Time-Life's Island Fighting
Entertainer,Rabaul
Entertainer,Rabaul
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Geishas and wounded
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The Nadeshiko Unit,High school girls and the kamikaze
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaz ... /index.htm
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaz ... /index.htm
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More white coated housewives
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Peter - I read someplace that female Japanese teenagers worked as telephone operators for the Home Army Headquarters in Hiroshima.
I remember one comment my father made about his tour in Hiroshima in September 1945. He said that one thing an American sailor noticed was that there were no women evident. They evidently went into hiding before the American occupation forces landed. Eventually, they returned to the city.
I remember one comment my father made about his tour in Hiroshima in September 1945. He said that one thing an American sailor noticed was that there were no women evident. They evidently went into hiding before the American occupation forces landed. Eventually, they returned to the city.
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Thanks James,good to hear a first person account.
M.G.Sheftall in his Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze mentions the village women of Kyushu taking to the hills after the surrender was announced.They had been ingrained with the notion that the arriving Americans would commit mass rapes.The benign reality of the US occupation soon calmed them down.
M.G.Sheftall in his Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze mentions the village women of Kyushu taking to the hills after the surrender was announced.They had been ingrained with the notion that the arriving Americans would commit mass rapes.The benign reality of the US occupation soon calmed them down.
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Military switchboard
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Hirohito's daughters,three of the Royal Princesses 1939.
Right to left--Princess Shigeko(1925-1961),Princess Kazuko(1929-1989),Princess Atsuko(1931-)
Right to left--Princess Shigeko(1925-1961),Princess Kazuko(1929-1989),Princess Atsuko(1931-)
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From Time-Life.
Tokyo 1943,stopped in the street to add a stitch to a Senninbari (Thousand Stitch Belts).
Tokyo 1943,stopped in the street to add a stitch to a Senninbari (Thousand Stitch Belts).
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