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Family policy in the country of Japan refers to government measures that attempt to increase the national birthrate in order to address Japan's declining population. [2] It is speculated that leading causes of Japan's declining birthrate include the institutional and social challenges Japanese women face when expected to care for children while ...
In 2014, Japan's population was estimated to be 127 million. ... and it established policies to control government costs in these programs. ...
A 2021 article published in Sustainability Science said that sensible population policies could advance social justice (such as by abolishing child marriage, expanding family planning services and reforms that improve education for women and girls) and avoid the abusive and coercive population control schemes of the past while at the same time ...
After the war, SCAP began promoting birth control programs with what became known as a "benevolent neutrality" that was seen as a hands off approach, but in fact acted as a guiding force, targeting population reduction through policies, laws, and programs. Japan soon realized that their independence was contingent on their ability to restore ...
The new policies come as the birth rate in Japan hit a record low earlier this year. From January to June, the country recorded 350,074 births, down 5.7% from the same period in 2023, according to ...
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 Japan began faced following the introduction of Western medicine.
The mission of the IPSS is to collect accurate and detailed data regarding the current state of the Japanese population and its fertility rate and to produce highly accurate estimations of future trends based on careful scientific analyses perforated on that data. The IPSS also conducts research concerning social security policies and systems ...
In 1897, the Japan Social Policy Association was established and was modeled on the equivalent German association. The concern of social work increased in the Japanese government. In the 1920s, large companies, such as Kanegafuchi Spinning Company and Tokyo Spinning Company, adopted a company welfare system to provide occupational welfare while ...