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This essay examines the entanglement between population science and population governance immediately after World War II. It analyzes debates on ~population and birth control research that contributed to the state-endorsed ~birth control campaign. Drawing on the existing works on the campaign as well ~as coproduction theory proposed in science and technology studies (STS), this ~essay depicts how the Japanese state’s post-war birth control policy was ~coproduced with a particular kind of population science that insisted on ~the necessity of birth control for Japan’s post-war reconstruction.