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Aiko Takeuchi-Demiric, Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 336 pp. $30.00. ISBN: 978-1503604407

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  1. Readers interested in how this works today are encouraged to find Nigerian medical professional Obianuju Ekeocha’s disturbing Target Africa: Ideological Neo-Colonialism of the Twenty-First Century (Ignatius, 2018).

  2. “Specifically,” Takeuchi-Demirci adds in an endnote here, “Margaret Sanger recommended that the government ‘keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, as stated in the 1924 law [i.e., the Immigration Act], and meanwhile ‘apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation’ to ‘certain dysgenic groups in our population’. Quoting Margaret Sanger, “A Plan for Peace,” Birth Control Review, April 1932, 106.

  3. See Shimokawa Masaharu, Bōkyaku no hikiageshi: Izumi Sei’ichi to Futsukaichi hoyōsho (Tokyo: Genshobō, 2017), and Jason Morgan, “The history of the unspeakable: Shimokawa Masaharu’s The forgotten history of evacuation,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 19, no. 4 (2018), 644–654.

  4. See Jason Morgan, “Kikuta Noboru and Adoption Law in Japan,” Reitaku Daigaku Kiyō, vol. 102 (2019), 35–44.

  5. See Hata Ikuhiko, tr. Jason Morgan, Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

  6. See Jason Morgan, “The Pro-Life Movement in Japan,” Society, vol. 54, no. 3 (June, 2017), 238–245, and Lynn D. Wardle, “Crying Stones: A Comparison of Abortion in Japan and the United States,” New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 14, nos. 2–3 (1993), 183–259.

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Morgan, J. Aiko Takeuchi-Demiric, Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 336 pp. $30.00. ISBN: 978-1503604407. Soc 57, 251–255 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00473-8

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