*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…

*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 …

＊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…

*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)