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AHR Roundtable A Man at Twenty, Aged at Twenty-Five: The Conscription Exam Age in Japan
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IN STUDYING JAPANESE SOCIETY from the Meiji period (1868–1912) to the end of World War II, one notices that the age at which men underwent the army conscription exam, which at the time was set at twenty, occupied a special place in people’s lives.1 Japan’s development of a modern milita...
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