A History of Sex Education Films in Japan - Part 2: The Post-War Years and the Basukon Eiga

Midnight Eye... A History of Sex Education Films in Japan - Part 2: The Post-War Years and the Basukon Eiga. "...At the end of World War II Japan was confronted with a serious problem of overpopulation. The repatriation of its citizens from the former colonies, a baby boom despite the miserable economic condition of the immediate post-war years and the resulting food shortages led to an intensive discussion of Japan's population problem. 'Surplus population' (kajo jinko) became a media buzzword of the period. Birth control and family planning thus became urgent tasks and sparked the so-called basukon eiga ("birth control films") that will be the topic of Part 2 of the series 'A History of Sex Education Films in Japan.'"