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Newly created Aichi fund provides foster children with access to higher education

National | Regional voices: Chubu Jul 3, 2019

Newly created Aichi fund provides foster children with access to higher education

A fund set up by the Aichi Prefectural Government in March is providing financial aid to students from children's homes seeking to enter higher education. "I want to realize my dream and live up to the expectations (of my supporters)," said a 19-year-old Aichi student ...

National / Social Issues May 21, 2015

11 babies left in hospital's 'baby hatch' in fiscal 2014

The number of unwanted babies dropped off at Jikei Hospital's so-called baby hatch reached 11 in fiscal 2014 — topping 10 for the first time in four years, the city of Kumamoto has said. The hospital, in Kumamoto Prefecture, opened the Konotori no Yurikago (Stork ...

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