Abortion in Japan

Memorandums and information about abortion situations and problems in Japan

Entries from 2019-01-01 to 1 month

Japanese government virtually legalized abortion in the 1940s just after the WWII

*Japanese women not allowed to use contraceptive pills until 1999 Almost all of the Western nations allowed birth control pills first, and then abortion. However, in Japan thieir order was opposite: abortion first, and birth control pills …

Students, activists petitioning to make emergency contraception easily accessible in Japan

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United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division

*Looking at Japan from "World Abortion Policies" Wall chart: access here。 Excel file data: access here and click "Data Table (Excel)". According to this chart, Japanese women are not allowed to have abortion on request, due to mental heal…

D&C is rampant in Japan

*Abortion techniques used According to Sekiguchi et al. (2015), "Safety of induced abortions at less than 12 weeks of pregnancy in Japan", International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 129:54-57, more than 80 % of the abortions before…

Basic information of abortion in Japan

*Official Statistics of abortion in Japan Numbers of legally induced abortions (recent 5 years) >> Year* Legally induced abortions 2012 196,639 2013 186,253 2014 181,905 2015 176,388 2016 168,015 2017 164,621 * Japanese Fiscal Year begins …

Results of research on abortion providers in Japan

*Facts about Japanese Ob-Gyn doctors and abortion in Japan A research was conducted on Japanese obstetrician and gynecologists by Prof. M. Kinefuchi, Assistant prof. M. Mizuno, Researcher K. Tsukahara in September 2010 about their abortio…

Facts about abortion in Japan

*Number of legal abortions in Japan by gestational age and by woman's age Table 4. Number of legal abortions by gestational age, by weeks(FY2012-2017) Table 6. Number of legally induced abortions by woman’s age(FY2012-2017)

Discrepancies of Abortion Methods and Values Between Japan and the World

*My article published as a special report in Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.4, No.4 (December 2014):99-120 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [Special Report] Discrepancies of Abortion Methods and Values Between …

Japan an underdeveloped country for women

*Japan Times BY TOKO SHIRAKAWA Jan 11, 2019 >> Among the 149 countries covered in the latest world gender gap index, Japan’s position improved slightly from 114th a year ago to 110th. Still, Japan remains the lowest among the Group of Seve…

#We too

*Please endorse the objection toward a sexiest weekly magazine publisher! The below is the English part quoted from a message from Campaign.org: >> Recently a Company called Shuukan Spa has released a ranking of “University students with e…

ABORTION PROBLEMS IN JAPAN

*Some information about Japanese situations Here are contents of a flyer I handed out to the attendants I met at the 2013 IWAC held in Bangkok. >> ABORTION PROBLEMS IN JAPAN 1. LEGAL PROBLEM Abortion is basically prohibited by the criminal…

Abortion problems in Japan

*Reproductive justice is needed for Japanese women It's over 15 years since I set about researching on actual abortion situations in Japan as a graduate student, but abortion situations here have not been changed a lot. At first, there wer…