1943-10-21

Student mobilization for war

JapanStudent mobilization for war is a home-front mobilization 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. Student labor mobilization intensifies
  2. Tokyo Metropolitan Government established
  3. Absolute National Defense Zone declared
  4. Student mobilization for warCurrent record
  5. Student labor in munitions factories
  6. Ministry of Munitions established
  7. Greater East Asia Conference
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Wartime Position

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

Student mobilization for war is a home-front mobilization 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.

Gakuto shutsujin send-off and Wikimedia Commons · Gakuto shutsujin, 1943 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Gakuto shutsujin send-offVisual recordGakuto shutsujin send-offA photograph of the 21 October 1943 student-soldier send-off at Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium in Tokyo. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Student mobilization for war.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · Gakuto shutsujin, 1943Open source