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The was the European-style men's civil uniform introduced in Japan in 1940 during World War II. A similar-looking uniform was earlier introduced in Manchuria and was known as or .

Its similarity to a military uniform was allegedly one of the reasons for the large number of killed Japanese civilians when the Soviet army attacked in 1945, see, e.g., Soviet assault on Maoka.

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