Tokyo, Nov. 28.
Mr. Kan Majima, Japan's leading advocate of birth control, has recanted.
He has changed his views, he explains, because of the "nation's need ior human resources to draw on for the continental advance."
Mr. Majima first publicly cham-piened birth control in 1923, and five years later founded the Japan Birth Control League.
Following his recantation, he has begun advocacy of "increased pro-paration," making the "scarcity of population which Germany suffered after the Great War" one of his main points.
At the same time, Mr. Majima is urging that every measure possible should be taken to reduce the rate of infant mortality in Japan.
"In Japan," he says, "infant mortality in the first year of life amounts to seventeen per cent, whereas in other civilized countries the death rate is only three per cent."—Reuter.
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