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The Asia-Pacific War clearly had a great social and psychological impact on Japanese women. They were treated as an object of government labor mobilization schemes, and so played a crucial role because the Japanese government needed lots of labor to win the war. Previous studies have argued that only unmarried women were mobilized as laborer in wartime. They have overlooked the role of married women as laborers. And they have ignored the relationship between women’s labor and child-care in wartime. In this research, I would like to talk about married women’s labor mobilization and child-care at factories in Tokyo. Specifically, I focus on Kinro yoin who worked in munitions factory. Kinro yoin system was carried out before unmarried women were officially mobilized. Tokyo National Employment Agency decided to allow a factory which built the attached nursery to hire kinro yoin to produce war supplies. If the kinro yoin system had been succeeded, I think the labor policy of Japanese women in wartime would have changed. There is no research on kinro yoin until now. In that sense I think this research is very important.