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Hidden in Plain Sight: Stillbirths and Infanticides in Imperial Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

Fabian F. Drixler*
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Fabian Drixler is Professor of History at Yale University, Department of History, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract

Around 1900, an extraordinary number of stillbirths appeared in Japan's statistical yearbooks. This article investigates possible biological explanations but concludes that Japan's anomalous stillbirth rates were primarily the result of the deliberate misreporting of infanticides and abortions. On the basis of an international comparison spanning five centuries, it estimates that between 1886 and 1940, Japanese parents filed between 1.7 and 2.8 million false stillbirth reports.

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