The real turning point in the lives of the women of Nippon. was the great earthquake of 1923. Fotiowing this catastrophic disaster, which necessitated the adoption of a new mode. of living. many girls and women commenced entering business and. commercial offices neretafore closed to them. They were m in the emergency, for every available adult human being, man or woman, was needed in the gigantic task of Feconstructing the vast devastated areas.
Just as the World War gave the women of America and Europe an opportunity to. enter the men's sphere of business and industry, £0 the earthquake of 1923. in Japan afforded the women and girls of the Tand of cemure kimono-clad women, whose place until then was strictly in the home, an opportunity 10 penetrate Into their husbands' and brothers. domain.
Upon taking positions in offices the women soon discovered that it
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