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

Commemorative Stamp, 1947

Stamp depicting the enforcement of the Japanese Constitution in 1947. Are civil rights for women being equated here with "good wife-wise mother"? Image brought to Site Ed.’s attention by Vera Mackie.
From: JPS Philately in Japan on-line magazine, no. 103, 2005 March. http://yushu.or.jp/english/e_sdate/00jpn/
00comm/00may23c1.html. 19 August 2005.

 

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