The ban on birth control pills in Japan was finally ended by the government last June. Although the pill has been widely used by about 90 million women around the world for more than 30 years and it has now become available here, many Japanese women don't seem to be so interested in it. Yoshie Kawakita, a feminist counselor at the Dawn Center and Sumie Uno, a women's health activist talked about this. The 70 percent of women who answered that they don't want to use it say that the reason is the side effects.
Japanese people seem to like taking drugs for colds or stomach problems in their daily lives.
They might just be using the idea of side effects as an excuse for not being serious about contraception and the pill. I'm not sure if they don't want to use the pill because it is a synthetic hormone or not. I personally don't really want to put unnecessary chemicals into my body. But I also understand that we should not argue against the pill merely because it is a chemical. Otherwise, you might have to refuse the pill because it is an endocrine disrupter, which can damage the environment, and might effect future generations.