ABSTRACT
The health and welfare programs were having an impact on the daily life of every individual in Japan, and the Japanese were well aware of it. The Far East Commission, the thirteen-nation body which was organized to establish policy for the occupation of Japan, visited Japan just after its organization. There were two directives that had been adopted by the Far East Commission as their policy directive, which had been initially written in the United States by the State, War, and Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC). The Japanese had used abortion and infanticide to limit families during the period from 1920 to 1939; in fact, they had done so long before the Meiji era. The birth rate in Japan had reached a post-war high, as it did in every country when men and women came together again after a period of separation during the war, and the marriage rate had increased.
