ABSTRACT
While Japanese nursing was gaining social recognition as a modern profession, the country was striving to gain an influential position in international society. Through wars, Japanese women increasingly expanded their sphere of action. Such changes were universal phenomena in this period. As discussed in Women and War in the Twentieth Century , edited by Nicole Dombrowski, women were not completely separated from the masculine sphere of war but had access to it. In fact they were often ‘home front heroines’ as well as ‘roses’ in battlefields.1 Japanese women were also looking for a way of contributing to their own country.
