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

Do Not Eat Airplanes

"If we greedily devour more food, and the tastiest things, there will be less for the production of workers, and our export capacity will drop. Let us think of it as eating precious airplanes." Image is from Nippon fujin (Japanese Women), August 1944.
Caption and image from: Wilson, Sandra. "Family or State? Nation, War, and Gender in Japan, 1937-45." Critical Asian Studies 38/3 (June 2006): 24.

 

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