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

Buddhist Women Praying

"At a meeting sponsored by the Buddhist Nichiren sect in Tokyo's Hibiya Park in February 1950, women and children pray for the return of POWs still held by the Soviet Union four-and-a-half years after the war ended."
From: Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

 

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