A few years ago I found a unique book by Horace Bristol on his photography of Japan, from 1949.
Thanks to his efforts, we can take a step back in time and have a glimpse at what life was like working as an Ama diver, and also see his progression as a photographer moving into nude portraits.
Of those, 973 nearly half work in either Toba or Shima city, Mie prefecture.
And, if the draft ever starts up again to achieve equity with the past an all-female military should be initiated until a rough parity has been attained with the numbers of males wounded and killed fighting war in prior conflicts.