2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Future of Human Reproduction: The Input of Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany in the International Framework for Eugenic Governance
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21KK0221
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| Research Category |
Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (A))
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 06010:Politics-related
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
Croydon Silvia 大阪大学, 大学院人間科学研究科, 准教授 (00634643)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021 – 2023
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| Keywords | human reproduction / eugenics / germline genome editing / in vitro gametogenesis / Japan / genetic enhancement / global governance / disability |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The PI demonstrated that the reason why Japan is showing resistance towards new eugenics is predominantly the fact that state-sponsored eugenics vis-a-vis disabled people persisted here until as late as the 1990s. Unlike Germany, Italy and other countries which abolished their eugenic laws after World War II, Japan retained its law until 1996. It is the fresh memory of these enforced eugenics, and not "culture" in the abstract, that conditions Japan's stance towards embryo screening.
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| Free Research Field |
biethics
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The PI refuted the conventional wisdom about Japan's resistance to new eugenics. Rather than using the abstract concept of culture, she has highlighted the long history of state eugenics of disabled.
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