What kind of population control did Japan engage in in the 60s?
Japanese doctors made a big chunk of their money performing abortions. They lobbied to outlaw most forms of birth control, because it interfered with their abortion revenue.
There are plenty of stories of Japanese doctors saying, “Your pregnancy test is positive, when should we schedule the abortion?”
This wasn’t formal government policy, but the government did support it.
The birth control pill wasn’t legalized in Japan until the 1999. Plan B wasn’t legalized until 2011. Abortion by medication is still illegal.
Did I say that it resulted in more births? I don’t think it did.
>>> Asian societies turned population control into a quasi-religious endeavor in the 1960s and are now paying the price
>> What kind of population control did Japan engage in in the 60s?
> Your response about no prescription abortions and birth control but instead doctors push abortions.
I'm totally missing your point about how Japan is engaging in population control. For example, if prescription abortions were legal and they pushed birth control instead, is the net effect a meaningful change in policy that would prevent them from "now paying the price"? I guess I'm totally missing how your criticism of their policies relates back to the original discussion that Japan's low birth rates are a result of population control and how addressing the critique you wrote would in any way change their birth rate.
Even specific very specific queries aren’t returning anything.
It seems search engines are focusing more on what they want to show you, rather than what you want to see.
"japan birth control policy" came up with this VERY detailed NIH discussion of Pst-WW2 Japanese birth control policy. literally first hit.