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
Old projects Japanese midwifery and obstetric medicine, Meiji ( ) - Taisho ( ) periods The Lucky Dracon incident and medicine for radiation sickness in 1950s Japan Fungal infections and the twentieth-century medicine
New project Title: Family Planning, Health Promotion and Global Medicine, : The activities of Japanese health campaigners around the world Wellcome Trust University Award 5 years
Project Role of… –Family planning campaigners –Health practitioners –Social scientists –Politicians
Project In three contexts… –Family planning in Japan, –American views on the Japanese population issue, –Family planning initiatives by Japanese organisations in Taiwan and Mexico, 1970s and 1980s
Research Published sources Interviews Archives
National Diet Library; General Head Quarters’ archives Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning Japan International Cooperation Agency
Archives Rockefeller Archive Center Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University Conway Library of Medicine The World Health Organization archive
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
Challenges Multiple languages Lack of knowledge on the archives other than those specialised in Japanese, British and American sources