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Did you know... that Japan's surrender in 1945 led to a surge of black-market yatai (food carts)?
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Did the foreigners who ran these carts do so illegally? Was this one of their only form of garnering capital? To further delve into this idea, was this a job tacitly reserved for foreigners and was it a social symbol and therefore part of the reason of its government contestation?
