Editing Infanticide (section)

====Japan====
Since feudal Edo era [[Japan]] the common slang for infanticide was ''mabiki'' (間引き), which means to pull plants from an overcrowded garden. A typical method in Japan was smothering the baby's mouth and nose with wet paper.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1097/00000433-198607020-00004 | last = Shiono| first = Hiroshi|author2=Atoyo Maya |author3=Noriko Tabata |author4=Masataka Fujiwara |author5=Jun-ich Azumi |author6=Mashahiko Morita| title =Medicolegal aspects of infanticide in Hokkaido District, Japan| journal =American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology| volume = 7| issue = 2| pages = 104–06| year = 1986| pmid = 3740005 | s2cid = 483615}}</ref> It became common as a method of population control. Farmers would often kill their second or third sons. Daughters were usually spared, as they could be married off, sold off as servants or prostitutes, or sent off to become [[geisha]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/08/archives/infanticide-in-japan-sign-of-the-times-daughters-spared.html|title = Infanticide in Japan: Sign of the Times?|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1973-12-08|access-date = 1 September 2017|archive-date = 3 March 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180303230043/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/08/archives/infanticide-in-japan-sign-of-the-times-daughters-spared.html|url-status = live}}</ref> ''Mabiki'' persisted in the 19th century and early 20th century.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Vaux| first = Kenneth| title = Birth Ethics | publisher = Crossroad | year = 1989 | location = New York | page = 12}}</ref> According to one estimate, at least 97% of homicide victims in Japan in 1900 were newborns.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Drixler |first1=Fabian |last2=Matsuzaki |first2=Reo |date=2024 |title=Façade Fictions: False Statistics and Spheres of Autonomy in Meiji Japan |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323292241253135 |journal=Politics & Society |volume=53 |pages=57–97 |language=en |doi=10.1177/00323292241253135 |issn=0032-3292}}</ref> To bear twins was perceived as barbarous and unlucky and efforts were made to hide or kill one or both twins.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Science: Japanese Twins |magazine=Time |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770452,00.html |access-date=2015-03-19 |date=1936-11-09 |archive-date=6 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606223356/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770452,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>