JAPANESE WAR WIDOWS
Beauties of the Land of Cherry Blossoms who used to' be so charming and meek are causing the Japanese War Ministry no small amount of trouble, states the "Sydney Morning Herald." After months of tortured waiting for soldier husbands, who will never return, they have banded together as a "husband-demanding corps." They storm the War Office shouting, "We want husbands," and the Japanese can no longer resist these sobbing widows. They are registering - all women who have lost their husbands in the war against China, and a contingent of them, numbering more than 60,000, is leaving shortly for Manchukuo and other parts of Qhina to become the wives of Japanese soldiers serving at the front.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1939, Page 14
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118JAPANESE WAR WIDOWS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1939, Page 14
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