The contraceptive pill gets legalised in Japan
Witness History

The contraceptive pill gets legalised in Japan

B2中高级2026年9月30日10 min

After decades of campaigning in Japan, the pill was finally legalised in 1999. In contrast, the male impotency drug Viagra was approved for use in just six months, and legalised before the contraceptive pill for women. Politician Yoriko Madoka pushed hard for the right to take the pill and told Rebecca Kesby that sexism and male dominance in parliament is why it took so long. This programme was first broadcast in 2020. Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through...

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In 2020, Rebecca Kespi spoke to one woman who made it her life's work to fight for the right to take the pill.

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Yuriko Madoka is a politician who served in the upper house of the Japanese parliament

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. and tell me what you think. The contraceptive pill for women was developed in 1960 and over the next decade or so was approved for use in many countries all over the world, but not in Japan. There, women would have to wait until 1999 to be allowed to take oral contraceptives.

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In 2020, Rebecca Kespi spoke to one woman who made it her life's work to fight for the right to take the pill. I am the sort of person that the more resistance I face, the more motivated I am. Yuriko Madoka is a politician who served in the upper house of the Japanese parliament between 1993 and 2010 as one of the few women in politics at the time she made a point of

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speaking up for women's rights, including the right to take the contraceptive pill. The reason I started pushing for the legalization of the pill was because before I became an MP, I used to give a class for women called the smiley divorce class. I wasn't a professional counselor or anything, I was just a journalist.

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