The Unlikely Role of Kitchens in Occupied Japan

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Erin Blakemore, The Unlikely Role of Kitchens in Occupied Japan; After World War II, 'occupationaries' tried to spread American-style domesticity to Japanese women. JSTOR Daily, Apr 10, 2021.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-unli ... -in-occupied-japan/

Note:
(a)
(i) The English surname Blackmore, of which Blakemore is a variant, is from place name of this spelling (Blackmore) "with Old English blæc 'black', 'dark' + mor 'moor', 'marsh' or mere 'lake.' "

Similarly the English surname Blake is a variant of Black.
(ii) The article provides an electronic link to
Michiko Takeuchi, Cold War Manifest Domesticity: The 'Kitchen Debate' and Single American Occupationnaire Women in the US Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952. US-Japan Women's Journal 50: 3 (2016)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26401818
("In defeated, bomb-destroyed Japan, where 9 million of the country's 72 million people were homeless * * * ")
(A) Michiko Takeuchi. Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University Long Beach, undated (Last updated: August 2018)
https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/history/faculty/takeuchi/

竹内 美智子 (mi and chi are Chinese pronunciations of 美 and 智, respectively).
(B) The title Cold War Manifest Domesticity came from

Amy Kaplan, Manifest Domesticity. American Literature 70: 581 (1998)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2902710?seq=1

However, I can not find a summary in the Web about what this journal article was about.

Amy Kaplan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Kaplan
(1953-2020; was Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania)
(C) Kitchen Debate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Debate
(D) The journal is "Published by University of Hawai'i Press on behalf of International Institute of Gender and Media," but I fail to find where the Institute is located.
(E) JSTOR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR  
(table: a digital library; "William G Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, founded JSTOR in 1995. * * * The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded JSTOR initially. Until January 2009 JSTOR operated as an independent, self-sustaining nonprofit organization with offices in New York City and in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Then JSTOR merged with the nonprofit Ithaka Harbors, Inc—a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 and 'dedicated to helping the academic community take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies' "
(b) Women's Army Corps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Army_Corps
(1942-1978)
(c)
(i) demographics of the Empire Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Empire_of_Japan[/url]  
(section 1 Japan proper: "The first national census based on a full sampling of inhabitants was conducted in Japan in 1920 and was conducted every five years thereafter. Per the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the population distribution of Japan proper from 1920 to 1945 is as follows")

The sectional title says it all: population figures in the section do not include foreign-born nationals (such as Taiwanese in Taiwan and Chinese in Manchuria) or Japanese nations in, say, Taiwan or Manchuria.
(ii) author(s) not shown, The Geography of Wartime Demographic Change: Japan, 1944-947. Population Association of America, 2015
file:///C:/Users/WPL/Downloads/Demographic%20impact%20of%20WWII%20in%20Japan_07_09_2015_Manuscript_Final.pdf

Quote:

Introduction: "In terms of loss of life, World War II was 'history's deadliest quarrel' (Clodfelter, 2008, p581). The death toll [world-wide] 'surpasses 30 million --- with 40 million a more likely figure and some estimates going up to 55 million' (Ibid)."

The Demographic Impact of World War II on Japan [which like Introduction is a sectional heading]: "While Japan's population had increased rapidly from 55.96 million in 1920, when the first national population census began, to 73.114 million in 1940 (Sōrifu Tōkei Kyoku, 1940), World War II had a devastating impact on it. The estimated total population of Japan after its surrender in 1945 was approximately 71 million (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1984; Taeuber, 1958). Demographers have focused their attention on the mortality caused by the war. A recent study suggests that Japan lost about 2 million soldiers and 1 million civilians during the war, approximately 4% of the pre-war Japanese population (Kesternich et al, 2014). * * * A third demographic phenomenon that has also received little attention is the large-scale repatriation of overseas military personnel and civilians back to Japan after 1945. Approximately 6.6 million Japanese are estimated to have returned to Japan proper from overseas, including the territories controlled by the then Soviet Union (Havens, 1978; Nimmo, 1988). This repatriation comprised approximately 45 percent of a post-war increase in Japan’s population between 1945 and 1950 (Steiner, 1952)."

(A) What I am dissatisfied with this essay is that it did not say what the population of Japan should have been, after criticizing earlier research and complained about undercount such as repatriation.
(B) Population Association of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_Association_of_America

(d) Japanese-English dictionary:
* senryō 占領 【せんりょう】 (n,v): "military occupation"
* kaihō 解放 【かいほう】 (n,v): "liberation"
* キッチン (pronounced ki and chen, with a stop of one-syllable duration between the two pronounced syllables)  "kitchen"