Labour+and+Work

·  ‘Hearts and Minds’ were required to win the battle and this meant that women and children were called to duty in the form of labour and work – this went directly against Japanese tradition ·  By 1943 Government policy stated ‘ men to the frontline, women to the workplace’- in the same year a Women’s Volunteer Labour Corps was created to help staff in factories whose jobs were to create war materials ·  By 1944 there were over 40 million women workers ·  Hours were long (maximum of 11 hours per day), low wages, and appalling working conditions within the factories ·  Tuberculosis became a major problem amongst workers alone killing over 170 000 Japanese in 1943 ·  Children, women and older people were all forced in the cities and the countries to pick up the work left behind by the men who were off at battle ·  Whole schools were taken into the countries to assist with farming
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AS IN THE US, BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA IT WAS KNOWN THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE AND SUCCEED IN THE BATTLE WAS WITH A TOTAL WAR APPROACH AND THE JAPANESE TOOK THIS SAME APPROACH DURING THE OCCUPATION 1945-1951.