For instance, Japan currently has no clear legal framework covering birth registrations or handling of family registers in ...

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

Police in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, have arrested a 16-year-old girl on suspicion of abandoning the body of her newborn baby boy at her home after giving birth in early March. Police said the girl ...

Gurpreet Bedi became mom to a baby boy on April 2, 2025, and now through an adorable post, she and her husband shared the little one's unique name.

Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--San-ikukai, a Tokyo-based social welfare corporation, announced Monday the start of its "Baby Basket" project to protect lives of newborn babies at its hospital in ...

Japan opened its first baby hatch, called Konotori no Yurigago, or stork’s cradle, nearly two decades ago in 2007, in Jikei Hospital in the city of Kumamoto. As of May 2024, Jikei’s baby hatch had ...

The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in Oita welcomed a baby “Nihonzaru” (Japanese macaque) on April 21, the first to be born this year. The newborn male macaque was named “Dekopin ...