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‘For the Wounded and Belgian Refugees’: The Agency of Wives of Belgian Diplomats in the Belgian Relief Fund in Tokyo (1914–1919)

Less than a month after the German army invaded Belgium in August 1914, Japan declared war on Germany, joining the First World War on the side of the Entente Powers. Similarly to the West, Japanese humanitarian organisations and charity initiatives actively tried to relieve the d...