The Japanese admit to over 300,000 abortions annually but the real number is likely to be double that. One Japanese doctor admits that the reason doctors haven’t been campaigning for the pill’s introduction is that it would erode their huge income from abortions. 19 year old Yoshie is seven weeks pregnant. She says seven of her friends have had ten abortions between them. The Japanese authorities believe the pill will make women promiscuous. Tens of thousands of replicas of Jizo-sama, the Guardian of Dead Children, stand in temples across Japan. Japanese women buy them to placate the spirits of their foetus. This hard-hitting report looks at the painful consequences for young Japanese women undergoing abortions merely because the pill is not available.