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Between the West and Asia: “Humanistic” Japanese Family Planning in the Cold War (December 2016)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 10
Issue: 4
Pages: 445-467
Publication date: December 2016
Language: English

DOI: 10.1215/18752160-3149695

URI: http://easts.dukejournals.org/content/10/4/445

Publication Date: December 2016
Edition Details: Special issue of the journal on Population Control in Cold War Asia

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Population control Demography; population research Family planning Cross-cultural comparison Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence Cold War 20th century Japan

This article studies the formation of Japanese ventures in family planning deployed in various villages in Asia from the 1960s onward in the name of development aid. By critically examining how Asia became the priority area for Japan's international cooperation in family planning and by analyzing how the adjective humanistic was used to underscore the originality of Japan's family planning program overseas, the article shows that visions of Japanese actors were directly informed by Japan's delicate position in Cold War geopolitics, between the imagined West represented by the United States and “underdeveloped” Asia, at a time when Japan was striving to (re)establish its position in world politics and economics. Additionally, by highlighting subjectivities and intra-Asian networks centered on Japanese actors, the article also aims to destabilize the current historiography on population control, which has hitherto focused either on Western actors in the transnational population control movement or on non-Western “acceptors” subjected to the population control programs.

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Article Huang, Yu-Ling (2016) Biopolitical Knowledge in the Making: Population Politics and Fertility Studies in Early Cold War Taiwan. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 377-399). unapi

Article Kayo Sawada (2016) Cold War Geopolitics of Population and Reproduction in Okinawa under US Military Occupation, 1945–1972. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 401-422). unapi

Article Darshi Thoradeniya (December 2016) Altruism, Welfare, or Development Aid? Swedish Aid for Family Planning in Ceylon, 1958 to 1983. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 423-444). unapi

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Article Susan Greenhalgh (December 2016) Cold War Population Science and Politics in Asia. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 469-474). unapi

Article DiMoia, John P. (December 2016) “Counting One’s Allies”: The Mobilization of Demography, Population, and Family Planning in East Asia, Late 1920s–Present. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 355-376). unapi

Article Homei, Aya; Huang, Yu-Ling (December 2016) Population Control in Cold War Asia: An Introduction. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 343-353). unapi

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