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JOICFP
Documentary Series
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#2 .
Household Medicine Distributors in Rural Japan
by Kita Nihon Shimbun newspaper
English/50 pages/1980/750 Japanese yen
Introducing Japan’s unique system of door-to-door
medicine distribution that evolved over three centuries
ago in Toyama Prefecture. Through this book, readers
will be able to gain various suggestions such as
how a medicine distribution network should be initiated
and sustained in remote and rural villages and hamlets
by the people themselves. |
#3.
Where There Is a Will - The Story of a Countryside
Health Nurse
by Masanari Nakano
English/58 pages/1981/750 Japanese yen
A spotlight on a rural, agricultural area of Nagano
Prefecture that succeeded in improving its health
and living conditions through the enthusiasm of
a young public health nurse, Ms. Miyoshi Oba.
As she became accustomed to village life, she was
able to find where health problems of the village
lay. She found, to cite one example, that eye diseases
were rampant among the villagers simply because
they were taking a bath at neighbors’ houses.
Parasitic infections were very common probably because
they were using their hands to eat with. She then
concluded that it would be difficult to change the
situation by pointing out the health problems to
individual villagers. Each would hesitate to take
any new measure unless others did the same. The
best way, she thought, would be for the whole village
to tackle its problems simultaneously. |
#6.
A Remote Village Awakens - A Case of Social Education
by Audio-Visual Materials
by Keishi Ishikawa
English/104 pages/1982/1000 Japanese yen
This book introduces the Omogishi Study conducted
in Japan some 25 years ago by a group of researchers
from the University of Iwate and other people concerned,
which succeeded in awakening the people in a closed,
backward community by systematically showing them
movies and slides for three years. It took up community
development, including family planning and the improvement
of environmental sanitation, as a subject for education
and traced the process of the development in as
much detail as possible. In the process, it also
tried to develop people’s awareness of their
lives and let the people organize themselves in
order to tackle these problems. |
#7.
A Twenty-Year History of Maternal and Child
Health Centers
by Hideo Takemura
English/62 pages/1982/750 Japanese yen
The rapid decreases in Japan’s infant mortality
rate and maternal death rate can be mainly attributed
to the services offered by the maternal and child
health centers. The first of these centers was established
in 1958 under the guidance of the then Ministry
of Health and Welfare. The maternal and child health
centers, as established in Japan, are unique in
that they combine midwifery and health guidance
services, and have no precedent anywhere else in
the world. The centers built in municipalities all
over the country became the bases for providing
health services for rural mothers and children.
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#9.
For the Sake of the People - The Health Revolution
Led by Saku Central Hospital
by Takeharu Nishirai
English/72 pages/1983/750 Japanese yen
This booklet introduces the true concept of
rural medicine that Dr. Toshikazu Wakatsuki put
into practice in the Saku region. Throughout many
years he has made tireless efforts to integrate
curative and preventive medicine and health education.
The fruits of these efforts can be seen in the unique
health care system developed by Dr. Wakatsuki and
his hospital staff. This booklet contains a detailed
commentary on how Dr. Watatsuki’s enthusiasm
gradually led to understanding and appreciation
from those suffering from overwork, poverty and
disease. |
#11.
A Fight for Women’s Happiness - Pioneering
the Family Planning Movement in Japan
by Shidzue Kato
English/121 pages/1984/Revised in 1998 added a chronology/750
Japanese yen
An autobiography of Mrs. Shidzue Kato, an international
pioneer in the family planning movement.
Born in 1897 and inspired by Mrs. Margaret Sanger’s
efforts in America, she started a movement in 1922
to introduce ‘birth control’ to Japanese
women, suffering from the hardships of repeated
pregnancies. Throughout her life, she continued
to dedicate herself to the promotion of women’s
rights through this family planning movement.
In 1946, she was among the first women to be elected
to Japan’s parliament. In 1972, she was awarded
for her 29-year service to the public and in 1975
she received the First Class Order of the Sacred
Treasure.
In 1954, she became the first Vice President of
the Family Planning Federation of Japan (FPFJ),
and played a leading role in organizing the IPPF’s
Fifth International Conference on Planned Parenthood
held in Tokyo in 1955. In 1974, she was appointed
President of the FPFJ and Vice President of the
IPPF East and South East Asia and Oceania Regional
(ESEAOR) Council. In 1977, she was made a Patron
of IPPF. Since May 1984, she was Vice President
of JOICFP, and she was its president from 1985 until
her death in 2001, aged 104. |
#14.
Battling with Worms - The Postwar Parasite Control
Activities of Private Organizations in Japan
by Wataru Kunii
English/59 pages/1985/750 Japanese yen
Parasite control can be a good means to health education,
especially when conducted through mass examination
and treatment involving the whole community. As
was demonstrated in Japan, it provides the people
with the opportunity to recognize the poor conditions
of their own health and environmental sanitation
in the community, and motivates them to act to improve
the conditions. Parasite control was effectively
promoted by private groups with the technical cooperation
of academicians and researchers. Later, it was taken
up by the government as a nationwide program and
integrated with other preventive health programs.
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#18.
Saving the Children - How Japan Keeps Down Its Infant
Mortality Rate
by Eikichi Matsuyama
English/76 pages/1986/750 Japanese yen
The remarkable decline in the infant mortality
of Japan has been made possible by the concerted
efforts of the government at central and local levels,
academic societies, private organizations, and the
people themselves.
Asked how Japan achieved such a high level of maternal
and child health in such a relatively short period,
Dr. Eikichi Matsuyama, author of this book, analyzed
many factors from the viewpoint of maternal and
child health (MCH). He emphasized that the extensive
use of the MCH Handbook might have created a foundation
for the effective promotion of MCH, which has resulted
in mothers practicing good health habits almost
without realizing it.
His findings are very useful for many communities
that are making every effort to improve the health
conditions of mothers and children. |
#19.
A Grassroots Movement to Improve the Quality
of Life - Integrating family planning with health
care and community development activities –
10 Year Experience of the Integrated Project in
China 1983-1993
English/120 pages/1994/1000 Japanese yen
This booklet provides an overview of the activities
of the project, which has been implemented in China
with support from IPPF for a decade. The volume
is a compilation of speeches and reports by Chinese
representatives of central and local governments
and non-governmental organizations, village leaders,
village doctors and a villager, and provides broad
insights into the workings of the project at all
levels. |
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