"Women working on the assembly line of the Seiko Watch Company in 1958. Hundreds of thousands of young women, just out of middle school, took such jobs in the booming high-tech industries of electronics and precision machine manufacturing, as well as in the established industries such as textiles."

From: Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; 260.