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FACING TWO WAYS-Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto-Parrar & Rinehart...
When Shidzué Ishimoto was born in Tokyo at the turn of the century, the life of a woman of the samurai class was confined to a rigid pattern, from which deviation was instantly punished. She could expect to lead a sheltered life, become accomplished in penmanship, drawing, ethics, the three forms of bowing, the elaborate and agonizing rules for entertaining at dinner, the equally elaborate rules for serving tea, the subtle and difficult art of arranging flowers in vases. She could expect her parents to arrange her marriage, to be dominated throughout it by her husband and her mother...
...many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions and Opium Traffic) of the League of Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor, 1929-31). From Japan came demure Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, birth control advocate who lecture-toured the U. S. last winter. From Berlin came Dr. Marie Munk, first woman judge in Prussia. At the Columbian Exposition in 1893, women had a special building. This year they explained that since they had achieved equality they did not need...
...sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that of the entire U. S. cooped up on islands of less total area than California and with only half that State's cultivated area. Dainty little Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto thinks she has the answer and is proud to be called "the Margaret Sanger of Japan." In 1922 the Baroness brought Birth-Controller Sanger to Japan, braved storms of opposition and has established a remarkable number of birth control clinics throughout the Empire (Tokyo has some 60 small commercial clinics...
Sadly the Baroness Ishimoto admitted that birth control may have come to Japan "100 years too late...