Sakura Kindergarten in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, is one of a growing number of day-care centers hoping to use the Internet and other information technology to keep parents happy and worry-free.
Sakura has 11 cameras in its kindergarten and adjacent facilities so the parents of about 200 children up to 12 years old can monitor them from their computers or cell phones.
Sakura was the first kindergarten to start the video service. It did so with the help of Tokyo-based DoCoMo Machine Communications Inc., an affiliate of NTT DoCoMo Inc., in April 2001.