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The United States took the lead in rolling back Japan’s conquests in Asia. By the summer of 1945, most of Asia had been liberated, but Japan had not been defeated. The choice was judged to be either an invasion of the Japanese home islands—something that promised to be extraordinarily difficult and costly—or using a terrible new weapon that would l

Although the local administration admitted no link between newly arrived Americans and its amendment of the established dress code, framing the decision as a wartime measure to conserve fabric, the U.S. presence undoubtedly spurred the new policy."

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