1944-03-01

Air-raid evacuation policy

TokyoAir-raid evacuation policy is a home-front war order record around Tokyo, situated in the phase when cabinets, rationing, labor, and student mobilization were folded into total war. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. Air-defense wardens mobilized
  2. Aircraft factories dispersed
  3. Urban food shortages intensify
  4. Air-raid evacuation policyCurrent record
  5. Group evacuation of schoolchildren
  6. Fall of Saipan and cabinet crisis
  7. Tojo cabinet resigns after Saipan
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Wartime Position

the phase when cabinets, rationing, labor, and student mobilization were folded into total war

Air-raid evacuation policy is a home-front war order record around Tokyo, situated in the phase when cabinets, rationing, labor, and student mobilization were folded into total war. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Tokyo clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

USSBS war-damage claims report on Japan and Wikimedia Commons · USSBS war-damage claims report, Japan provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

SourceSourceUSSBS war-damage claims report on JapanA U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey war-damage claims report documents how schoolchild evacuation and civilian displacement under air-raid policy became an administrative and compensation issue in Japan. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Air-raid evacuation policy.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · USSBS war-damage claims report, JapanOpen source