The Sexual Behaviour of Japanese Youth

Discusses changing teenage sexual behaviour in Japan, and how, despite a very low teenage pregnancy rate, and a very low abortion rate, debates in Japan from the mid-1970s on have constructed a 'teenage pregnancy problem', which in turn has had a major influence on social attitudes towards, and social control of, teenage sexual behaviour.

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Beverley Anne Yamamoto discusses changing teenage sexual behaviour in Japan, and how, despite a very low teenage pregnancy rate, and a very low abortion rate, debates in Japan from the mid-1970s on have constructed a 'teenage pregnancy problem', which in turn has had a major influence on social attitudes towards, and social control of, teenage sexual behaviour.