Abstract:This article explores a birth control survey conducted by the Japanese government between 1945-1960, and analyses how this research, both as scientific practice and knowledge, resonated with government efforts to manage the population during postwar reconstruction. Focusing on Shinozaki Nobuo, a Ministry of Health and Welfare 'technical bureaucrat' (gijutsu kanry o or gikan) specializing in population issues, this article depicts how human agency participated in the at times precarious relationship between pol… Show more
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