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Why did the Japanese need to control population?

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After World War II, the Japanese government adopted a different method of tackling population growth. Whereas the pre-war government was comfortable with relieving Japan's surplus population by emigration and territorial expansion, the post-war government relied on birth control to slow the population growth.

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