Information Education Bulletin No. 21, October 4, 1945 Page: 11 of 14
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Among the upper classes women sometimes receive higher education,
occasionally have an opportunity to travel abroad, and are encouraged
to master cultural arts. Since these upper-class women have servants and .
are not expected to do household chores, they can devote more time to
cultural and intellectual matters, but they are still expected to be
dutiful wives and rarely accompany their husbands to any social events
outside the home.
Industrialization and wartime scarcity of male workers has done much
to emancipate the Japanese woman from the traditional position. In the
factory women are as c ommon as men. In the transportation systems she has
adequately handled such jobs as bus drivers, brakeman and baggage smashers.
Professionally skilled women are appearing as teachers, dentists, and
doctors.
Among the
equals of men.
poorer classes and on the farm, women are more the social-
The economic interdependence of husband and wife may have
something to do with this - a farmer, whose wife is a good fareorinsult"
the same time a good manager of the household would hesitate to 1250
her or treat her badly for fear she might leave him or simply lie
down on the job. Socially, women of the rural and lower classes have
greater eqaulity and at parties and banquets both men and women may
participate in drinking, singing, and dancing. A farmer’s wife is much
freer in act and speech than a middle or upper-class woman
would ever
dare to be.
Regular pro-
3 years.
Prostitution in Japan is regulated by the government,
statutes (oro) are usually sighed on for a period of or -
while formerly a father could sell his daughter without her consent, this
is no longer true, However, in a poor family, if a at er put a public
pressure on his daughter to sign a contract there is no conest1od,Pub 10
opinion to back up any objections she may have to the propositi
• • - : 4 are girls who have been trained in play
tinction is marked, and the successful geisha artesans with traditions
enable wit as well as training. eis a are while joro are simply mom-
stemming from the court ladies of old Japan, whn 3
bers of the oldest profession.
In urban areas,
* ' organized into civic and patriotic
In recent years women have been organaeo inraid drills, etc. . ,
organizations to assist at reservis eview Rir contrary to the tradi-
This is a new development in Japanese 11444 net husband's field. Indeed
tion that woman's place is in the home 9 teachers and other gov- •
it has taken a good deal of urging from school Reacher, In urban areas,
tenement officials to get these organizations undeups a significant devel-
however, they are rather important, traditional family pattern in
opment which will do more to change th. 152 0
Japan than either urbanism or industrials”
This is perhaps, as
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27th Infantry Division. Information Education Bulletin No. 21, October 4, 1945, text, October 4, 1945; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1679699/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.