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

Lining up for Rations

Japanese were subject to a strict postwar government rationing system. Here, a line forms in the Ginza District, 1946. Photo by Hayashi Tadahiko.
From: Takeuchi, Keiichi, ed. Japan: A Self-Portrait: Photographs 1945-1964. Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2004.

 

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