Japanese culture has no moral or ethical problems regarding abortion. Since theirs is more of a monoculture, they do not have the fierce emotional divide like here in the US. Even though abortion has to be approved by a doctor, that is just a formality. Eastern cultures view life and death differently than in the West. They have a long history of a belief in reincarnation that allows them to view the loss of a child as only being a temporary state of the soul until it can find another vessel/body in this life. They also tend to view life through the lens of a more societal collective cohesiveness versus the West that values individualism. The Japanese are not welcoming to cultural diversity. They have their customs and traditions that have been developed over millennia.
Japanese culture has no moral or ethical problems regarding abortion. Since theirs is more of a monoculture, they do not have the fierce emotional divide like here in the US. Even though abortion has to be approved by a doctor, that is just a formality. Eastern cultures view life and death differently than in the West. They have a long history of a belief in reincarnation that allows them to view the loss of a child as only being a temporary state of the soul until it can find another vessel/body in this life. They also tend to view life through the lens of a more societal collective cohesiveness versus the West that values individualism. The Japanese are not welcoming to cultural diversity. They have their customs and traditions that have been developed over millennia.