Women nurses of Japan's newly-formed Self-Defense Corps man an aid station on Hokkaido, Japan, during maneuvers on October 20, 1955. Japanese forces, using U.S. – supplied equipment engaged in their first post-war military exercises with a U.S. advisory group and other foreign military observers on hand to watch the defense maneuvers against an imaginary invader of the Japanese island. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)
