Obstetrician Koji Samejima had always felt a gap existed between couples who wanted a baby but couldn't conceive and women who were expecting a baby they wouldn't be able to raise.
"I wanted to save pregnant women who couldn't raise their babies as well as the babies," said Samejima, director of Samejima Bonding Clinic in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture.
Samejima, who is also a gynecologist, has helped match such women with childless couples wishing to take care of their babies since 1989 and has arranged 66 adoptions over the past 25 years.