Historical Development of Professional Education on Population in Japan: Focusing on the 1950s as a Turning Point

Abstract

It was in 1955 that the first survey on professional education on population was conducted in Japan. The Science Council of Japan finalized proposals asking the government to establish a comprehensive organization to discuss the nation's population policy through the reorganization of Institute of Population Problems. Thereafter, population studies from social scientific approaches developed. Also, the issues of population quality were replaced by welfare and human rights issues.This paper focuses on the situation of professional education on population in the 1950s as a turning point of population studies in Japan.