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How Did Margaret Sanger's 1922 Tour of Japan Help Spread the Idea of Birth Control and Inspire the Formation of a Japanese Birth Control Movement?

Documents selected and interpreted by Esther Katz, Peter C. Engelman, Cathy Moran Hajo, and Rui Kohiyama. Translations by Kazuhiro Oharazeki.. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2011)

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How Did Margaret Sanger's 1922 Tour of Japan Help Spread the Idea of Birth Control and Inspire the Formation of a Japanese Birth Control Movement?, Documents selected and interpreted by Esther Katz, Peter C. Engelman, Cathy Moran Hajo, and Rui Kohiyama. Translations by Kazuhiro Oharazeki.. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2011).

•Introduction

•Document List

•Editorial Practices and Acknowledgments

•Document 1: Elizabeth Coleman to Margaret Sanger, Tokyo, Japan, 16 May 1921

•Document 2: "Mrs. Sanger will soon visit Japan," 6 February 1922

•Document 3: Typed statement to the Government of Japan, 18 February 1922

•Document 4: Margaret Sanger to Hugh De Selincourt, 19 February 1922

•Document 5: "The Missionary Idea," 22 February 1922

•Document 6: "Birth Control," 1 March 1922

•Document 7: "Dangerous Thoughts Under Control," 2 March 1922

•Document 8: "Birth Control the Only Solution Seen," 4 March 1922

•Document 9: "Nothing Against Birth Control in Japan's Tradition or Religion," 5 March 1922

•Document 10: "Japan and Birth Control," 7 March 1922

•Document 11: Margaret Sanger to Anne Kennedy, 8 March 1922

•Document 12: "Mrs. Sanger Must Promise Police She Won't Talk if She Lands Here Tomorrow," 9 March 1922

•Document 13: "On Birth Control, Part I," 9 March 1922

•Document 14: "Against Birth Control," 10 March 1922

•Document 15: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Yokohama, Japan, 10 March 1922

•Document 16: "Mrs. Sanger was finally permitted to land after the intensive interrogation," 11 March 1922

•Document 17: "On Birth Control, Part II," 12 March 1922

•Document 18: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Tokyo, Japan, 13 March 1922

•Document 19: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Tokyo, Japan, 15 March 1922

•Document 20: "Overpopulation is Cause of War Says Mrs. Sanger," 15 March 1922

•Document 21: "Prominent Women Met Secretly, Taking Countermeasures Against Mrs. Sanger," 15 March 1922

•Document 22: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Tokyo, Japan, 17 March 1922

•Document 23: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Tokyo, Japan, 18 March 1922

•Document 24: "Mrs. Sanger's Visit to Result in Population Study Society," 19 March 1922

•Document 25: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Yokohama, Japan, 19 March 1922

•Document 26: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Yokohama, Japan, 25 March 1922

•Document 27: Margaret Sanger to Juliet Barrett Rublee, ca. 27 March 1922

•Document 28A: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Kyoto, Japan, 28 March 1922

•Document 28B: Excerpt from Margaret Sanger, World Trip Journal, Kyoto, Japan, 29 March 1922

•Document 29: "Japan is the Only Country Where I Was Not Allowed to Talk about Birth Control Freely," 31 March ...

•Document 30: "My Reflection on Mrs. Sanger's Opinion, Part II," 2 April 1922

•Document 31: "Birth Control," 3 April 1922

•Document 32: "Brief Impressions of Japan," ca. 10 April 1922

•Document 33: "The Readers' Letters Asking for Information about Birth Control," May 1922

•Document 34: "Women's Liberation and Birth Control," May 1922

•Document 35: "Mrs. Sanger As Japan Sees Her," 14 May 1922

•Document 36: "The Birth Control Movement in Japan," 1922

•Document 37: "Birth Control in China and Japan," 30 October 1922

•Document 38: Shidzue Ishimoto to Margaret Sanger, 16 December 1922

•Document 39: "Birth control movement in Japan," May 1925

•Introduction to Supplementary Documents, September 2014

•Document 40: Telegram (No. 36) from Yada Shichitaro to Foreign Minister Kosai Uchida, 11 February 1922

•Document 41: Telegram (No. 18) from Foreign Minister Kosai Uchida to Consul General Shichitaro Yada, 15 Februa...

•Document 42: Telegram (No. 21) from Foreign Minister Kosai Uchida to Consul General Shichitaro Yada, 16 Februa...

•Document 43: Telegram (No. 41) from Consul General Shichitaro Yada to Foreign Minister Kosai Uchida, 19 Februa...

•Document 44: "Mrs. Sanger's Talk Gets by Police Censors," 20 February 1922

•Document 45: "A Consideration of the Birth Control Theory," Part III [1922?]

•Document 46: Telegram (No. 16) from Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Masanao Hanihara to Foreign Minister Kosa...

•Document 47: Margaret Sanger to American Consul, George Hawthorne Scidmore, 10 March 1922

•Document 48: Letter from Margaret Sanger to Kōsai Inoue, Governor of the Kanagawa Prefecture, 10 March 1922

•Document 49: George Hawthorne Scidmore, American Consul, to Kōsai Inoue, Governor of the Kanagawa Prefecture, ...

•Document 50: Letter from Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture Kōsai Inoue to Home Minister Takejiro Tokonami, Forei...

•Chronology of Margaret Sanger's Tour of Japan, 1922

•Biographical Directory

•Bibliography

•Project Credits

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