1944-01-01

Urban food shortages intensify

JapanUrban food shortages intensify is a home-front economy record, 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. Greater East Asia Conference
  2. Air-defense wardens mobilized
  3. Aircraft factories dispersed
  4. Urban food shortages intensifyCurrent record
  5. Air-raid evacuation policy
  6. Group evacuation of schoolchildren
  7. Fall of Saipan and cabinet crisis
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Wartime Position

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

Urban food shortages intensify is a home-front economy record, 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 Japan clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Emergency rice feeding by tonarigumi and Wikimedia Commons · Emergency rice feeding by tonarigumi provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Emergency rice feeding by tonarigumiVisual recordEmergency rice feeding by tonarigumiA July 1945 photograph of emergency rice distribution by neighborhood units amid urban food shortages. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Urban food shortages intensify.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · Emergency rice feeding by tonarigumiOpen source