Abstract
The existence of rural women under their own names from Okinawa, the last prefecture to be converted back to postwar Japan, in the history of Japan, started to be observed in the modern age. According to the Conscription Ordinance, women existed as cotton-mill workers in comparison to a large number of rural men, who appeared as soldiers in the history of Japan. However, due to the overwhelming lack of materials, as well as the prevailing view of factory women being the center of tragic stories, the true stories have not been revealed until now. An attempt was made in this paper to narrate an oral history of the life story of a former female factory worker from Okinawa. Her narrative comprises the period when she started working as a cotton-mill girl at the age of 15 around 1919, until her marriage in 1925, when she was forced to resign.
