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

Bike Racing, 1950

"A bikeracing boom hit Japan at about the same time that receipts for horse racing dramatically declined. In January, 1950, there were 147 women's bike contestants."
From: Ichiokunin no Shōwa shi (Showa History of a Hundred Million). Vol. 5. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, Nov. 1975.

 

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