Second Asian Population Conference Opens in Tokyo

Asia's second regional meeting on population policies and problems opened today in Tokyo with twenty-three nations in attendance. The conference, inaugurated by Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Takeo Miki, also heard addresses by U Nyun, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE, which organized the Conference with Japan as host Government), and Rafael Salas, Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.
U Nyun calls to order the inaugural session of the Conference. Also pictured are: Masahisa Aoki, Parliamentary Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan (to U Nyun's left), and Raphael Sales to Takeo Miki's immediate right and Telichiro Sakamoto, Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare, Japan.