The Women's Volunteer Corps (女子挺身隊, Joshi Teishin-tai) was created in April 1944 as a work group for Japanese women.^[1] The official purpose was to give women a chance to serve the Empire of Japan prior to marriage, it was a means to compel women to perform war time labour duties.^[1] It mobilized unmarried women between the age of 12 to 40, while married women where mobilized by the Dai Nippon fujinkai.

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