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

Mukai Chiaki in Space Shuttle

"Chiaki Mukai aboard the space shuttle, where she had to master new methods of locomotion to move about in a weightless state. Mukai underwent two years of screening and nine years of training before her first flight [1994]."
From: Blazing a Path: Japanese Women's Contributions to Modern Science. Japan: Committee for the Encouragement of Future Scientists, 2001.

 

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