For five weeks from 1st December 2006, Kinokuniya, one of the largest bookstore chain in Japan, held a book fair in its 'human science' corner under the theme of "Women's Last Words - Describing my Own Life."

Around 50 publications related to women's issues, such as body, life, and gender, were chosen and displayed, including the Japanese versions of the IPPF publication Death and Denial: Unsafe Abortion and Poverty, and the UNFPA State of World Population 2006, both of which were published in Japanese by JOICFP.

It is of great significance for UNFPA, IPPF and JOICFP that these publications were selected as Kinokuniya is enormously popular with the general public, and this greatly raises the profile of the organizations among the Japanese public.

A young woman looks through UNFPA State
of World Population 2006 at the book fair