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Sugamo Prison.

Bath room.
Some class A and B prisoners like former Admiral Nagano were abused by the allied jailers being ordered to soak in the cold water in the winter(left). Some prisoners attempted suicide by falling head-first from the screen(right)


Community cell. Some prisoners attempted suicide by glass fragment of the toilet(left)


Rice cookers(left) and bath tub for class B and C.

Source: Prison of the Century - Sugamo Prison : Photo Collection (1982)
 
I have got rather mixed up but, soon after the Korean War broke out, Japan Police Reserve Corps(JPRC, later JSDF) was established by order of GHQ on August 10, 1950. People who seeked for job rushed to recruitment for the limit 75,000 plus 8,000 for the coast guard.


Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan (1955)
 
By 1950 Japan's recovery had begun but there was still widespread poverty and lack of opportunity. Opening an avenue to good jobs would certainly be greeted by many applying for those jobs.
 
Yes, and I worked with the kindest Japanese lady B4 I moved to Oz. She was shipped off to Japan in 1939 at around 10 years of age, as was custom in those days to learn from her elders "the old ways". Needless to say she didn't return to California until 1947, now a teenager with little education. The rest of her family in the USofA were sent off to Internment losing Everything. She did not like being around her family as all they could talk about was getting little or Nothing for being interred, only food and shelter! She lived in abject poverty during the war years. Begging fishermen for scraps to feed her aging grandparents while learning "the old ways". Does anyone benefit by war? Some will say yes, but at who's expense?
 
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