Many parents, for whatever reason -- be it shame or unwanted pregnancy, or even their financial inability to raise a child -- ...

Japan opened its first baby hatch, called Konotori no Yurigago, or stork’s cradle, nearly two decades ago in 2007, in Jikei ...

Japan has opened its second "baby hatch" at a Tokyo hospital. The initiative by the welfare corporation San-ikukai Social ...

With thousands of product prices rising, the cost of raising a child is becoming an impossible burden for some young Japanese ...

A Tokyo hospital yesterday became the Japanese capital’s first medical institution to offer a system allowing the safe, ...

A social welfare corporation in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward, has opened the country’s second baby hatch at one of its hospitals, ...