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This chapter examines the role of Japanese Protestant women in wartime imperialism through the establishment of the Airinkan settlement in Beijing from 1938 to 1945. It argues that the Japan Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (JWCTU) shaped Airinkan into a symbol of maternal love, which was later appropriated by the state for its wartime agenda. The analysis reveals how gendered religious rhetoric intertwined with nationalism and imperialism, influencing both the activists

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