1. Reaching out for Multiple Views: An examination of the history around Japanese family planning Aya Homei University of Manchester Committee on Public Services Council on East Asian Libraries Philadelphia, 24 March 2010

2. Old projects Japanese midwifery and obstetric medicine, Meiji (1816-1912) - Taisho (1912-1926) periods The Lucky Dracon incident and medicine for radiation sickness in 1950s Japan Fungal infections and the twentieth-century medicine

3. New project Title: Family Planning, Health Promotion and Global Medicine, 1945-1995: The activities of Japanese health campaigners around the world Wellcome Trust University Award 5 years

4. Project Role of… –Family planning campaigners –Health practitioners –Social scientists –Politicians

5. Project In three contexts… –Family planning in Japan, 1945-70 –American views on the Japanese population issue, 1945-70 –Family planning initiatives by Japanese organisations in Taiwan and Mexico, 1970s and 1980s

6. Research Published sources Interviews Archives

7. National Diet Library; General Head Quarters’ archives Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning Japan International Cooperation Agency

8. Archives Rockefeller Archive Center Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University Conway Library of Medicine The World Health Organization archive

9. Auxiliary archives The office of the International Planned Parenthood Federation Wellcome Library The Diplomatic Record Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Departamento de Salubridad Pública (Boletín) Library of the Academia Sinica

10. Challenges Multiple languages Lack of knowledge on the archives other than those specialised in Japanese, British and American sources