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A sukajan (スカジャン), also known as souvenir jacket or tour jacket, is a type of satin blouse jacket often embroidered with orientalist motifs that originated in post-World War II occupied Japan. Modeled after varsity jackets, they were originally a souvenir created by Japanese craftspeople for American servicemen stationed in
The incidents of soldiers collecting Japanese body parts occurred on "a scale large enough to concern the Allied military authorities throughout the conflict and was widely reported and commented on in the American and Japanese wartime press". [20] The degree of acceptance of the practice varied between units.
Similarly to the dolls and the comfort bags, the women were described as "imperial gifts" by the Japanese government, and were meant to serve as a reward for the men's contributions in the war. [10] Over time, comfort women were regarded as an essential military resource, and were seen simply as materials rather than individuals. [11]
Yoshiko Miwa, at 110 years old, is the oldest living American person of Japanese descent and shares the things that have allowed her to live such a long life.
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Further, between the 1860s and 1900, the genre of "Yokohama-shashin" (Yokohama Photo, Photographs selling or distributing in Yokohama, 横浜写真) was very popular. Yokohama-shashin showed Japanese scenery, Japanese people (especially Japanese women) and Japanese culture. These images were very widely used as souvenirs, especially among ...
Check out West Palm Beach’s Norton Museum of Art after it opens at 11 a.m. Housed in a stately Art Deco building, it features American, Chinese, European and contemporary art from a 8,200-piece ...
George Ariyoshi, first Asian American governor of a U.S. state (Hawaii) Alexander Arvizu (born 1958), US diplomat, first Japanese American Ambassador of United States (Albania) from 2010 to 2015; Sue Kunitomi Embrey (1923–2006), co-founder of the Manzanar Committee who worked to gain National Historic Site status for the former concentration camp