Japanese thinkers were concerned with the country's demographics compared to China and the Soviet Union and sought to copy those countries in reducing the death rate and increasing the birth rate. Army ideologists produced a eugenics law which ordered the sterilization or abortion of inferior or inadequate babies and ordered the increase of physically "perfect" future Samurai warriors. The Japanese government gave economic support to mothers having multiple children. These experts planned a ten-year program to increase the number of soldiers 100,000,000. If needed for conquest purposes, Japanese mothers "manufactured" three million babies or, in other words, a sixfold increase in this "production" by all Japanese women.