Open AccessBody Constitution of Young Male Workers in Kyoto, Japan in the World War II Period
Author(s) -
Inui Shunen,
Asaeda Tetsuya,
Furuki Katsuya,
Kawabata Hidenobu,
Kasai Soichiro,
Esaki Takafumi,
Ikeda Masayuki
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of occupational health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 59
ISSN - 1348-9585
DOI - 10.1539/joh.39.152
Subject(s) - constitution , kyoto protocol , world war ii , political science , law , greenhouse gas , ecology , biology
It is well known that the body size of young people may be reduced during wartime and that it was especially true during the World War II. For example, the reduction in growth was remarkable in primary school children in Sendai, Japan, in the 1940s. Records of body measurements of working populations are however extremely scarce, possibly because they were destroyed during the wartime. We have succeeded in locating a report by Miyagi et al. on the health status of young male workers in the city of Kyoto as measured during the World War II, which was submitted in 1943 to the Government of Japan. It is the purpose of the present communication to make the data open to the public and to evaluate the observation in comparison with the findings in counterpart current populations.