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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 ...
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 ...
These coercive and abusive population control policies impacted people around the world in different ways, and continue to have social, health, and political consequences, one of which is lasting mistrust in current family planning initiatives by populations who were subjected to coercive policies like forced sterilization. [22]
A day after Japan released its preliminary data this week, South Korea released its own figures showing its fertility rate – the world’s lowest – dropped yet again in 2023.
By 1943, it accounted for more than 20% of the world's population at the time with 463 million people in its occupied regions and territories. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] After Japan was defeated by the Allies in 1945, colonial control from Tokyo over the far-flung territories ended.
By the end of the century, the world's population was estimated at just under 1 billion. [89] At the turn of the 20th century, the world's population was roughly 1.6 billion. [89] By 1940, this figure had increased to 2.3 billion. [90]
The end of World War II and Japan's demilitarization led to an examination of the need for a large, strong population as a means of establishing Japan's international power. In December 1945 the idea of birth control as a way to alleviate overpopulation was re-considered in the House of Peers . [ 14 ]
At around 1721, the population of Japan was close to 30 million and the figure was only around 32 million around the Meiji Restoration around 150 years later. [ 22 ] [ 19 ] From 1721, there were regular national surveys of the population until the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. [ 20 ]