Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950
by
Fabian Drixler
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and...