1.57 shock
2 , 43
Abe, Shinzō
51 –52 , 176
Abenomics
106n115
abortion
37 , 153
legalization
39
adoption
40 , 54 , 203
adult
60
agencies
61
in Japan
59
Law for the protection of children in mediated adoptions by private mediation institutions
62
ageing reproductive cells
118
agency
33
Ahmed, Sara
119 , 126 , 131 , 143 , 164 , 204
pursuit of happiness
142
Alexy, Allison
8
Allen, Amy
34
amh test
136 –137
Angel Plan
43
arafō
64 , 115
Arimura, Haruko
188
arts. → assisted reproductive technologies
artificial insemination
54
artificial insemination with donor
55
in Japan
57
Asada, Yoshimasa
76 , 123 , 126 , 132 –133 , 136 –137 , 139 –141
Aso, Taro
2
assisted reproductive technologies
53 , 55 , 202
in Denmark
57
in Israel
57
in the USA
57
normalization
116 , 202
numbers in Japan
56
overtreatment
140
subsidies in Japan
57
Atarashii kyōkasho o tsukuru kai
51n30
autonomy
24 , 33 , 71
backlash
50
bankon
167
bansan
167
Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society
46
Basic Act on Education 2006
51n30 , 51 –52
Basic Policies for the Economic and Fiscal Management and Restructuring
44
beauty regime
101
beginning of life
152
biomedicalization
9 , 25 , 71 –72 , 89 , 116 , 164
subjectivities
32
biopolitics
20 –21
biopower
20 –21 , 165
birth control movement
36
blood ties
55 , 61
Botai Hogo Hō
37 , 39
Bourdieu, Pierre
19
Bröckling, Ulrich
12 , 21 –23 , 25 , 29 , 33 , 72 , 87
Brown, Louise
55
Castro-Vázquez, Genaro
10 , 44 , 52 –53 , 58 , 69 , 81 , 109 , 152 , 154
change in ovarian count according to age graph
191
chi’iki shōshika taisaku kyōka kōfukin
177
child fostering institutions
in Japan
59
child rearing
48
childcare leave
109
fathers
47
children born out of wedlock
44n15
children in care
in Japan
59
Choices for the Future
178
Chūpiren
40
Coleman, Samuel
7
commodification of women’s reproductive function
41
conception control
37
contraceptive pill
40 , 105 , 117 , 202
contraceptive use
40
Cook, Emma
8
co-production of science and social order
24
corporate culture
in Japan
46
Crime of Abortion
39
critical discourse analysis (cda)
12
culture of uncertainty
26 , 62 –63 , 115 , 143 , 200
cumulative probabilities of conception
134
Dales, Laura
8
Danjo Koyō Kikai Kintō Hō. → Equal Employment Opportunity Law
Danjo Kyōdō Sankaku Shakai Kihon Hō. → Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society
Dasgupta, Romit
156
datai-zai. → Crime of Abortion
decline in sperm concentration
157
demographic transition
first
43n12
second
43
Denbow, Jennifer
33 , 180
Dentsu
ninkatsu study
173
Diamond Yukai
155 , 184
digitized reproductive citizen
165 , 198
disciplinary power
21
discourse
13
discourse analysis
12
Does the stork come when you wish for it?
184
drop in fertility rates since the 1970s
43
economic bubble burst
62
economic growth strategies
63 , 106 , 116 , 167 , 201
education costs
45n16
Edwards, Bob
55
egg donation
58
in Japan
57
Eggsploitation (film)
58
Ehara, Yumiko
120
employment discrimination
47
Endo, Kumiko
65n51
enterprising self. → entrepreneurial self
entrepreneurial self
20 , 22 –25 , 28 , 72 , 126
feminized
29
gendered
29
Equal Employment Opportunity Law
46 , 64
Eugenic Protection Law
3 , 7 , 37 , 39 –40
eugenics
36 , 38 , 133 , 204
Extreme sex education and gender-free education truth investigation team
52
family
in Japan
26 , 38 , 43 –44 , 46 , 98 , 106 , 155
family homes
59
family planning
37 , 114 –115
family planning movement
37 –38 , 40 , 201 –202
family registry system
61
fear of emasculation
163 , 165 , 205
fear of regret
90 , 119 , 132 , 143 , 152 , 163 , 165 , 180 , 205
fecundity
definition
36
fecundity in women
studies
134
feminist media research
29
feminization of arts
109
fertility
definition
36n4
fertility rate
44
fine
92
Firestone, Shulamith
144
For you, who want children one day
186
foster families
59
Foucault, Michel
12 , 20 –22 , 25 , 33 , 163 , 198 , 200 , 205
Franklin, Sarah
6 –7 , 53 –54 , 154 , 200 , 203
Friedman, Milton
26
Frühstück, Sabine
8 , 48 , 196 –197
Fujita, Yuiko
63
Funabiki, Miyako
140 , 147 –148
futsū yōshi engumi
60
gakushū shidō yōryō
1998
50
Garon, Sheldon
26 , 166 , 201
Genda, Yuji
99
gender inequalities
in payment
46
gendered representation of reproductive cells
111
gender-free education
51
genetic counselling
118
Giddens, Anthony
118
Gill, Emily
33
Gill, Rosalind
24 , 29 –30 , 103 , 196
Ginsburg, Faye
6 –7 , 11 , 47
Giroux, Henry
22
Global Gender Gap Report
47
Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra
48
good wife, wise mother
39
new norm
117
Google Baby (film)
58
Google Trends
91 , 121
government
21
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
36
haken shain
46
happiness
24 , 142 , 152 , 165 , 204
happiness industry
131
happy object
142
Harvey, David
19 –20 , 26
healthism
30
Hertog, Ekaterina
40 , 44n15
heteronormativity
96 , 98 , 162
hi no e uma
43
Honda, Yuki
26 –27 , 62
Hook, Glen
182
hooks, bell
29
How to Lead a Healthy Life
188 –191
Hubbard, Ruth
139 , 141 , 164 –165
humanization of ova
151 –152
hyper-meritocracy
26 , 45 , 200
ideology of technology
119
Ikeya, Hisao
50
ikiru chikara
27
Ikumen
48
infertility
definition
58
in men
54 , 109 , 113 , 155
in the Meiji era
54
infertility consciousness
125
Infertility Superpower Japan
140 , 165
infertility treatment
77 , 89 , 92
as low birth rate countermeasure
184
Denmark
96
history
54
insurance coverage
206
Israel
96
normalization
81
USA
96
Inhorn, Marcia
6 –7 , 31 –32 , 53 , 144
Inochi to josei no techō. → Life and Women’s Handbook
intracytoplasmic sperm injection
55
in-vitro fertilization
55
in Japan
55
Ivry, Tsipy
6 , 10 , 98 , 104 , 151 , 164 , 198 , 200 , 204
Japan as Number One
62
Japan Family Planning Association
38
Japanese Association for Sex Education
49
Japaneseness
61 , 151 , 197
Jasanoff, Sheila
24 , 120 , 141
jibunrashisa
70 , 72 , 106
jinkō seisaku kakuritsu yōkō
36
jinkōmondai kenkyūjo
35
josei ga kagayaku ninkatsu
107
josei katsuyaku
63 , 106 –107
Josei Shōgaisha Nettowāku
39
joshi-ryoku
31
junketsu kyōiku
49
jutai chōsetsu
37
kachigumi
63
Kagawa, Noriko
148 –150 , 153
Kahn, Susan
33
Kanaya, Mika
133
Kanda, Uno
102
Kaoru, Tachi
9
karadazukuri
70
katsu
27 –28 , 105
Katz Rothman, Barbara
119 , 140 , 205
Kawai, Ran
87 , 87n57 , 134 , 137 , 140 , 152 , 195 –196
kazoku keikaku. → family planning
Keizai zaisei un’ei to kaikaku no kihon hōshin. → Basic Policies for the Economic and Fiscal Management and Restructuring
kekkon nanmin
65
Kenkōtekina seikatsu o okuru tame ni
188
Keynesian economics
19
Kikuchi, Natsuno
31
postfeminism
31
kin’yoku kyōiku
49
Kitahara, Megumi
156
Kitahara, Minori
176
kizuna
97
Kobori, Yoshitomo
158
Koizumi, Jun’ichiro
26
konkatsu
4 , 28 , 78 , 130
Kyōiku Kihon Hō. → Basic Act on Education 2006
labour market
in Japan
46
Life and Women’s Handbook
3 , 83 , 148 , 169 , 172 , 176 , 191
life planning and correct knowledge
education
174 –175
Life Stages of a Woman’s Body
181
lost decade(s)
62
Love and Body Book
51
low birth rate
2 , 104
countermeasures
4 , 43 , 166
factors
44 –45
Lupton, Deborah
104 , 199
Macaron-package
108
Mackie, Vera
41
Madonna–whore dichotomy
117
make inu
64
makegumi
63
Makino, Tomokazu
27 , 31 , 72
male breadwinner model
45 –46 , 64
Mann, Ellen
31 , 100
Martin, Emily
109 , 111 , 193
Maternal Protection Law
37
Matsumoto, Akiko
92 , 127 , 147n78 , 191 , 194
McCall Rosenbluth, Frances
7 , 46 , 48
McLelland, Mark
48
McRobbie, Angela
33
medical tourism
58
medicalization of male infertility
155
medicalization of the pregnant body
41
Melucci, Alberto
100
Men’s Pregnancy Reader
111
Merck Serono
70 , 88
meritocracy
62
Meyers, Marian
20
mhlw (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
35n1
mhw (Ministry of Health and Welfare). → mhlw (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
mikonjosei
74 , 76
mininjosei
74 , 76
mitochondrial replacement therapy
55
molecular gaze
25 , 143 , 152 , 163
Moore, Lisa
163
moral suasion
166
motherhoodism
89 , 119 , 125
Nakasone, Yasuhiro
26
natural conception
98
Nayar, Pramod
118 , 142
neoliberalism
19 , 22 , 28 , 199
in Japan
26
nhk Close Up Gendai
social freezing
145
sperm crisis
157
Umitai no ni umenai – ranshirōka no shōgeki
121
nhk Special
sperm crisis
159
Nihon Kazoku Keikaku Kyōkai. → Japan Family Planning Association
Nihon Sei Kyōiku Kyōkai. → Japanese Association for Sex Education
Nilsson, Lennart
in Life magazine
153
ninkatsu
boom
70
buzzword
72
counseling
94
for men
110 , 112
jibunrashisa
96
lesson
107
magazines
73
natural conception
98
perfection
103
power
86
products
90
role models
76 , 80 , 102
the role of technology
202
time limit
76
trademark
71
Twitter
73
Ninkatsu Bible
78
Ninkatsu Start Book
70 , 74 , 76 , 80 , 92 , 97n92 , 101
Ninkatsu Woman
127
ninshin shiyasusa to nenrei graph
188
ninshin shussan tekireiki
182
Nippon ichioku sōkatsuyaku puran
167
Nippon Kaigi
51n30
Norgren, Tiana
3 , 7 –8 , 37 , 39 –40
O’Brien, Mary
6 –7 , 198
Ochiai, Emiko
38 , 43 , 47 , 63 , 108
Ogino, Miho
3 , 7 , 9 , 32 –33 , 36 –38 , 41 –42 , 53 –54 , 114 , 130 , 156 , 163 , 169 , 197
o-kuni no tame
36 , 38
one-operation child rearing
63
Ong, Aihwa
22
oocyte cryopreservation
144
Ōshima, Miyuki
92
Our Bodies – Ourselves
41
Outline of the countermeasures for the low birth rate society
3 , 83 , 174 –176 , 203
Outline of the establishment of the population policy
36
ovarian ageing
73 , 80 , 119 , 121 , 124
critique
130
overpopulation
3 , 37
paternal leave
48
pill. → contraceptive pill
Plummer, Ken
35
Population Problems Research Centre
35
postfeminism
87 , 103
definition
30
pregnancy
77
research in Japan
31
postfeminist healthism
30 –31 , 101 –102 , 116 , 204
pregnancy
101
power/knowledge
13 , 20 , 34
precarious Japan
62
pregnancy and motherhood
in Japan
10
pregnant women as consumers
73 , 77
pre-natal testing
118
Princess Bank
148
propaganda
80 , 120
rankatsu
132
ranshi no rōka. → ovarian ageing
ranshi no rōka o kangaeru kai
127
Rapp, Rayna
6 –7 , 11 , 48
Rasmussen, Claire
34
Reagan, Ronald
26
reproductive choice
53 , 65
and low birth rates
105
as consumer culture
154
reproductive entrepreneur
32 , 77 , 103 , 113 , 115 –116 , 183 , 199 , 204
reproductive expiration date
132
reproductive gap society
65
reproductive rights
33 , 53
in Japan
39 –40
reproductive risk management
125
Rose, Nikolas
20 –22 , 24 –25 , 30 –31 , 131n36 , 143
ryōsai kenbo. → good wife, wise mother
Saitama stork ambassador
184
Saitō, Hidekazu
71 , 76 , 78 , 80 , 83 , 95 , 105 , 126 , 135 , 169 , 171 , 175n20 , 187 , 192 , 195
Sakai, Junko
64 , 129
Sandberg, Shana
8 , 40 , 61 , 105
Sandberg, Sheryl
29
sanji seigen undo
36
Scharff, Christina
30
science
as neutral
140 , 154
science and technology
24
Seaman, Amanda
10 , 41
sei kyōiku. → sex education
Seichō no Ie
39
seichō senryaku. → econonomic growth strategy
self-esteem
24 , 87
self-help
19 , 25 , 27 , 31 , 87 , 118 , 131 , 134 , 164 , 195
self-responsibility
107 , 116
semen self-check
110 , 158 , 163 , 203
Senda, Yūki
20 , 24 , 26 , 28 , 44 , 62 , 81
sex education
1 , 49 –52 , 99 , 127 –128 , 176 , 187 , 203
bashing
51
sexlessness
98
sexology
48
shiawase haitatsunin
141
Shibuya, Nozomu
28n6 , 31
shining mothers
107 , 116
Shiomura, Ayaka
2
Shirai, Chiaki
9 , 53 –55 , 58 , 59n44 , 59 –61 , 100 , 263
Shirakawa, Tōko
5 , 78 –79 , 82n46 , 82 –83 , 85 , 93 , 108 , 196
konkatsu
5
shokugyō nōryoku kaihatsu
183
shōshika. → low birth rate
Shōshika shakai taisaku taikō. → Outline of the countermeasures for the low birth rate society
shūkatsu
4 , 27
shūkatsu (preparations for one’s death)
28
single-parent households
97
Singles (drama)
129
social freezing
143 , 148
costs
150
feminist critique
144
guidelines
144
inequalities
151
life game
147
Urayasu city
146
social inequality
24 , 29 , 62 , 117
Society Demanding the Withdrawal and Call-Back of the Complementary Health Teaching Material for High School Students (Chūshikai)
188
Son, Mihyon
131 , 147 , 187 , 196
Soshiren
1 , 4 , 39 , 169
Special Advisor for Low Birth Rate Countermeasures and Childrearing Support during the second Abe Cabinet
170
sperm bank
158
sperm crisis
161 , 205
1990s
156
contemporary
157
masculinities
163
perfect norm
162
sperm power
157 , 159
life style
160
spiritual consumerism
31
Starting Families survey
71 , 76 , 88 , 167 , 175
Steinem, Gloria
87
Steptoe, Patrick
55
subjectification strategies
31
Sugita, Mio
2
Sugiura, Mayumi
124 , 129
surrogacy
58
Suzuki, Osamu
113 , 160
Takamura, Ai
52
Takeda, Hiroko
182
Tanaka, Shigeto
192 , 195
Tanaka, Toshiyuki
109 , 162
Taskforce to overcome the low birth rate crisis
83 , 168 , 171
information team
172
technologies of the self
21
Thatcher, Margaret
19 , 26
The History of Sexuality
21
The Japanese Society of Men’s Health
155
The Ninkatsu Bible for Men
111
the personal is political
88
tokubetsu yōshi engumi
60
truth (Foucault)
198
Tsuge, Azumi
9 , 11 , 39 , 53 –54 , 58 , 69 , 94 , 120 , 130 , 139 , 166 , 188n58
Tsukahara, Kumi
153
Tsutsui, Junya
44 –45
tuition fees for universities
45
umeru chikara
103
umeyo, fuyaseyo
3 , 38 , 197 , 202
uterus spirituality
31 , 100
van Beneden, Edouard
54
van Leeuwenhoek, Anthony
54
visualization and humanification of the ovum
153
vitrification
144
Welcome Baby Project (Saitama)
184
White Paper of Health and Labour 2013
168
will to health
31
wish to get married
45
Women’s Health Movement
41 –42 , 87 , 204
women’s movement
39
working-poor
63
Yamada, Masahiro
kibō kakusa shakai
62
konkatsu
5
Yamamoto, Beverly Anne
8
Yamatani, Eriko
51
Yanagisawa, Hakuo
2
year of the fire horse
43n13
Yoshimura, Yasunori
129 , 133 , 141 , 170 , 191 , 193 , 195 , 206
Yui, Hideki
11
Yūsei Hogo Hō. → Eugenic Protection Law
zen’in sankagata shakai
167