The Institute of Population Problems was a domestic assembly appointed by the Japanese Government in 1939. It helped to address the imbalance between population and resources that

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began faced following the introduction of Western medicine. Its first major solution was an urging of the Japanese government to make

contraception Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth contr ...

available, emphasising that

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was not the best solution. In 1996, the Institute of Population Problems merged with the Social Development Research Institute to form the

National Institute of Population and Social Security Research The is a national research institute in Japan. It was established in 1996 through the merger of the Institute of Population Problems (1939–) and the Social Development Research Institute (1965–). It is an affiliated institution of the Ministry ...

External links

The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the U.S. South
Takeuchi-Demirci, Aiko. ''Southern Spaces'' 18 March 2011.

References

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