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Aya Homei, "Science for Governing Japan's Population" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

New Books in Japanese Studies

CHAPTER

Understanding and Predicting the Past, Present, and Future

This chapter explores the relationship between scientific disciplines and their ability to predict and understand events, drawing parallels between seismologists predicting earthquakes and economists predicting economic trends. It also discusses the impact of wartime on population studies and the establishment of the Institute of Population Problems.

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