Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
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© Viachaslau Zhukau/Dreamstime.com The legion today Men between the ages of 17 and 40, of any nationality, may join the legion. Recruits enlist under an assumed name—a requirement known as the anonymat—but a legionnaire may request to serve under his true name after a year of service. Although the legion shields every legionnaire’s privacy, each prospective recruit is thoroughly interrogated to discover his motivation for joining the legion and to determine whether he has a criminal background. Those who have had minor scrapes with the law are acceptable—even preferred—as they are...