The Japan's National Defense Women's Association, which was organized in 1932, carried out various activities such as sewing senninbari (a cotton belt with a thousand red stitches, which was an amulet to avoid bullets), seeing off soldiers who were to leave for the front, donating money earned from collecting and selling waste materials, visiting and comforting the soldier's bereaved family, and so on, in the uniform of kappogi and tasuki-gake (tucking up the sleeves of a kimono with a cord) with the slogan "National Defense starts from the Kitchen."
1932年に成立した国防婦人会は「国防は台所から」というスローガンを掲げ、割烹着に襷掛けという会服で、千人針、出征兵士の見送り、廃品回収による献金、軍人遺族の慰問などの諸活動をおこなった。