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

Reduced to Brown Rice, 1946

Every seven minutes, this woman, who may or may not be from the countryside, fills a bottle with brown rice; Kanda section of Tokyo, May 1946.
From: Shashin ga kataru no Shōshi (Photographic History of Agriculture in Shōwa Japan). Tokyo, 1987.

 

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