Women's Volunteer Corps
1944–1945 work group in Imperial Japan
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The Women's Volunteer Corps (女子挺身隊, Joshi Teishin-tai) was created in April 1944 as a work group for Japanese women.[1] The official purpose was to give women a chance to serve the Empire of Japan prior to marriage, it was a means to compel women to perform war time labour duties.[1] It mobilized unmarried women between the age of 12 to 40, while married women where mobilized by the Dai Nippon fujinkai.
See also
- Korean Women's Volunteer Labour Corps
- Dai Nippon fujinkai
References
- ^ a b Brandon Palmer, Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies), University of Washington Press, 2013/7/30, ISBN 978-0295992587, p. 152.
