Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Wartime Housewives Brigade

A procession in Osaka, 1940, of patriotic housewives. Their lead banner declares, "Luxury is the Enemy." They are wearing monpei (baggy trousers) and head coverings and have given up the luxury of permanent waves.
From: Konishi, Shirō, et al (eds.) Shashin zusetsu Nihon hyakunen no kiroku (Photographic Record of Japan's Hundred Years, 1860-1960), Vol. III. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1961.

 

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