Kokumin-fuku

The kokumin-fuku (国民服, lit.'national uniform') was the European-style men's civil uniform introduced in Japan in 1940 during World War II.[1][2]

Its similarity to a military uniform was one of the reasons for heavy casualties among Japanese civilians when the Soviet army attacked in 1945.[3]

References

  1. 更新日:2010年11月25日. "戦時衣生活簡素化実施要綱". Ndl.go.jp. Archived from the original on 2008-06-16. Retrieved 2012-07-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. "A crash course in wartime Japanese terminology for foreign demons", Japan Times
  3. 中山隆志 『一九四五年夏 最後の日ソ戦』 中央公論新社〈中公文庫〉、2001年。 (Takashi Nakayama, "Last day of summer 1945 Soviet war", Chuko Bunko , 2001, ISBN 4122038588)
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