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

Takekoshi Eiko Manipulating a Reactor

"Atomic Scientist Mrs. Takekoshi Eiko, 32, manipulating radioactive iodine from a Japanese reactor at Tokai, is a graduate nuclear physicist and staff member at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute."
Site Ed. note: Takekoshi continued her professional career with the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institue, Tokai Research Establishment, and published several research articles in the 1970s.
Image and caption from Time magazine, March 23, 1959.

 

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