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

Maehata Hideko, Olympic Swimmer, 1936

"Hideko Maehata (foreground) at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. She was the first Japanese woman to win a medal in Olympic swimming and one of the first to win using the controversial butterfly stroke."
From: Leder, Jane. Grace & Glory: A Century of Women in the Olympics. Chicago: Triumph Books, 1996.

 

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