Science for governing Japan's population / Aya Homei, University of Manchester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Homei, Aya, author.

Series:

Science in history (Cambridge University Press)

Science in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--Japan--History.

Science and state.

Japan--Population--History.

Japan.

Japan--Population policy.

Japan--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been seen as problematic. What roles have population experts played in turning this demographic trend into a government concern? Aya Homei examines the medico-scientific fields around the notion of population that developed in Japan from the 1860s to the 1960s, analyzing the role of the population experts in the government's effort to manage its population. She argues that the formation of population sciences in modern Japan had a symbiotic relationship with the development of the neologism, 'population' (jinkō), and with the transformation of Japan into a modern sovereign power. Through this history, Homei unpacks assumptions about links between population, sovereignty, and science. This title is also available as Open Access.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. Population statistics: between building a modern state and governing imperial subjects; 2. Medical midwifery and vital statistics: for the health of Japan's population; 3. Policy experts: tackling Japan's 'population problems'; 4. National land planning: distributing populations for the wartime nation-state-empire; 5. Birth control survey: visualizing a productive Japanese population for postwar reconstruction; 6. Public health demography: local, national, and transnational efforts to govern lower-class populations; Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009195751

1009195751

9781009195775

1009195778

9781009186827

1009186825

OCLC:

1372578123

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access