"Housewives entertaining off-duty soldiers. The women wear white aprons and sashes emblazoned with the name of a major women’s patriotic association [The Greater Japan Women’s Association]."

From: Miyake Yoshiko. "Doubling Expectations: Motherhood and Women’s Factory Work Under State Management in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s," Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945. Ed. Gail Lee Bernstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991; 267-295.