“1959 midwife Toki struggles as American hospital births threaten traditional home-birth practices in post-war Japan.”
Toki
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1959 midwife Toki struggles as American hospital births threaten traditional home-birth practices in post-war Japan.
Toki is set in 1959, and follows the story of a midwife named Toki Ihashi, living in Yashio village, Saitama. She has been providing childbirth assistance to the village for many years. However, in 1948, after the war, the GHQ promoted American-style hospital births. This put midwives, whose livelihood was home birth, in danger of going out of business.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 1 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 08m approx
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M66528 catalog