Izumi Nakayama is an honorary assistant professor and a research officer in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on body, gender, and technology in modern and contemporary Japan and East Asia. For more details, visit http://www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/people/izumi-nakayama/.
Mired in demographic crises, East Asia is looking to new reproductive technologies as a solution. But its restrictive, reluctant embrace of these technologies runs counter to evolving social attitudes.