The 33-year-old former owner of a nursery school in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of inflicting injury resulting in death after she gave a drink containing salt to a 1-year-old girl, causing her to die from sodium poisoning.According to the Iwate ...
The annual number of babies born in Japan fell below 1 million for the first time in 2016, while over 1.3 million people died, resulting in the largest population decline on record, a government survey showed Friday.A total of 976,979 babies were born in ...
A 6-month-old boy in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, died late last month of infant botulism after his family fed him honey, according to the metropolitan government.Metropolitan officials said it was the first death caused by infant botulism in Japan since 1986, when the government began ...
A 10-month-old girl mauled by a pet dog died in Hachioji, Tokyo on Thursday, according to the police. The dog was a pet kept by the girl’s grandparents.At around 4:35 p.m., Midori Yasuda was suddenly attacked by a 4-year-old male golden retriever when she ...
The planned establishment of Japan’s second baby hatch, a place where people can anonymously leave unwanted babies, in Kobe has been put off, according to the nonprofit organization preparing to manage the facility.The NPO said Monday that it notified the Kobe Municipal Government and ...
Advances in ultrasonic diagnostic technology have given a ray of hope to pregnant women whose babies have serious cardiac ailments.“My baby wouldn’t have been here if we had not discovered her disease” before she was born, said Nobuko Hiratsu, 29, of Kanagawa Prefecture, recalling ...
In Japan people say neru ko wa sodatsu — a child who sleeps well grows up well. But does sleeping really bear a causal relationship to a child’s height?In an attempt to find out whether this well-known proverb can be scientifically backed up and ...
Police have recovered the remains of five newborns and rescued 10 more babies in eastern India after authorities busted an illegal adoption racket in November, sparking a massive investigation.Eighteen people have been arrested since last week after police rescued three stolen infants, who were ...
Japan is finally getting ready to open the way for the production and sale of ready-to-use liquid baby formula, which is likely to help reduce the burden on families raising children.The government will ask industry groups to submit data needed for setting safety standards ...
Over half of Japan’s parents now feed newborns nothing but breast milk — the first time this has been observed in three decades, according to a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry survey.“Efforts to promote breast-feeding have paid off,” a ministry official said Wednesday. Combined, ...
The Kumamoto Municipal Government said 13 infants were left in the baby hatch at Jikei Hospital in fiscal 2015.In all, 125 babies have now been rescued via the facility, Japan’s first, in its nine years of existence, it said Tuesday. The facility allows babies ...
Overweight or obese women give birth to larger babies, says new research that could make some pregnant women think twice before reaching for that box of ice cream.Mothers with high blood sugar or diabetes, even within a healthy range, also tend to have bigger ...
