| Autor: |
Melzer, Jürgen Paul |
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Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus; 9/1/2020, Vol. 18 Issue 17, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p |
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This essay explores new aspects of wartime Japan's industrial mobilization by analyzing how the country's struggling silk industry persistently exploited the emerging myth of Japan's paratroopers. With the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan's silk manufacturers suffered from a ban on luxury goods and the collapse of the U.S. export market. After several spectacular Japanese airborne operations, the Dainippon Silk Foundation successfully campaigned for the large-scale production of parachutes. Silk now was a material for military consumption, and silk weaving companies became designated munitions factories that publicly compared the self-sacrifice of their young female workers with that of the death-defying paratroopers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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