Abbreviations
- ACPP
Advisory Council on Population Problems
- CBS
Cabinet Bureau of Statistics
- CPB
Cabinet Planning Board
- DPHD
Department of Public Health Demography
- EPA
Economic Planning Agency
- EPL
Eugenic Protection Law
- GPL
General Plan to Establish National Land Planning
- GPP
General Plan to Establish the National Population Policy
- HHSG
Health and Hygiene Survey Group, Home Ministry
- IC-PFP
Investigative Commission for Population and Food Problems
- IHD
International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation
- IPH
The Institute of Public Health
- IPP
Institute of Population Problems
- IPPF
International Planned Parenthood Federation
- IRPP
Foundation-Institute for Research of Population Problems
- IRPP-CPM
Foundation-Institute for Research of Population Problems Committee on Population Measures
- ISI
International Statistical Institute
- JOICFP
Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning
- MHW
Ministry of Health and Welfare
- NCMH
National Committee on Maternal Health
- NRS
Natural Resources Section, SCAP-GHQ
- OCMA
Osaka City Midwives’ Association
- OIPS
Osaka Infant Protection Society
- OMA
Osaka Midwives Association
- OPR
Office of Population Research at Princeton University
- PAJ
Population Association of Japan
- PC
Population Council
- PH&W
Public Health and Welfare Section, SCAP-GHQ
- SCAP
Supreme Commander for Allied Powers
- SCAP-GHQ
Supreme Commander for Allied Powers General Headquarters
- TFR
Total Fertility Rate
- TTPSG
Temporary Taiwan Population Survey Group
- WWI
World War I
- WWII
World War II