TY  - BOOK
AU  - Homei,Aya
TI  - Science for governing Japan's population
T2  - Science in history
SN  - 9781009186827 (ebook)
AV  - HB3651 .H586 2023
U1  - 304.60952 23/eng/20220518
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Population
KW  - Population policy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Nov 2022); Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009186827
ER  -