THE RICE GODDESS AND THE FOX IN JAPANESE RELIGION AND FOLK PRACTICE

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. IN the latter part of March, 1943, I joined the War Relocati and for eighteen months thereafter held the position of Communi at the Manzanar Relocation Center. Since one-third of the evacuees who were living in the Center were immigrants who had begun life in Japan, and some of the young people, though American citizens, had lived in Japan and been educated there (these are the much-discussed kibei), this proved an excellent opportunity to gather information about Japanese customs and beliefs. The pressure of events was so great, howexer, that it was a type of inquiry which had to be undertaken in spare time and aside from official duties. Therefore I tried to confine investigation to those topics to which a contribution could