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

Panpan, Yūrakuchō District, Tokyo

"This classic photograph of a panpan or 'woman of the night' was taken by Yoshida Jun in Tokyo's Yūrakuchō District. In a later collection, the photo was captioned with a famous song title from the time: 'Who Made Me Such a Woman?'"
From: Dower, John W.. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press, 1999.

 

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