inflict the greatest damage upon the enemy before offering their own lives up in battle. Others in the military wore the as a memento and a keepsake of the women who had given it to them. Production could be made by a soldier's mother, sister or wife, who would stand near their local temple, train station or department store and ask any female passerby to sew in a stitch or knot. During the height of WWII, women's organisations would gather to produce en masse in order to meet demand. These were then placed in , or comfort bags, and were sent overseas to soldiers. According to tradition, any woman born in the year of the Tiger could sew either twelve stitches or a number of stitches identical to her age. Some belts were lined with the woman's hair, or the hair of multiple women, as an added form of protection, a custom that originated in folk beliefs on the island of Okinawa. Coins were also sewn into the belt for the perceived addition of protection. In popular culture were featured in the 2006 movie Letters from Iwo Jima. In the Japanese anime One Piece, the swordsman Roronoa Zoro wears a . Katana wears a in the 2016 movie Suicide Squad. Women in the animated film stitch , both as women waiting for stitch contributions by other women outside of public buildings, and as a familial task making "good luck blankets". See also Good Luck Flag References Bibliography Imperial Japanese Good Luck Flags and One-Thousand Stitch Belts by Dr Michael A. Bortner, 2008, Schiffer Military Books, Imperial Japanese Army Imperial Japanese Navy Japanese clothing Japanese stitching techniques Japanese words and phrases Shinto religious clothing Japanese folk religion Belts (clothing)