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JIKEI HOSPITAL

Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2022
Japan publishes guidelines on ‘confidential births’ amid growing attention
The guidelines were compiled after Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto started accepting women who wish to give birth anonymously.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2022
Teenager the first to use hospital's 'confidential birth' system
The hospital decided to introduce anonymous births amid a rising number of women choosing to deliver without medical assistance to keep their pregnancies a secret.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Dec 21, 2021
Jikei Hospital grapples with how to protect women seeking confidential births
A hospital in Kumamoto wants babies to be born safely while protecting their mother's privacy — but legal and administrative obstacles put it at risk.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Dec 21, 2021
At a Kyushu hospital, a wavering mother decides to keep her baby after hearing about a foster child
Still a minor and in her ninth month of pregnancy, she at first wouldn't reveal her full identity and said she wanted her information to be kept from the baby as well.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2021
Japanese obstetrician fights for 'confidential births' amid apathy
Takeshi Hasuda wants his Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto to lessen the number of dangerous home births by offering women an anonymous service.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2019
Japan government silent as Kumamoto pioneers secret-birth system
A private hospital in Kumamoto that has launched a program for women who want to give birth anonymously is calling on the government to legalize the program, but receiving little in the way of response.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2019
Hospital equipped with baby hatch in Kumamoto to introduce confidential birth program
Jikei Hospital in the city of Kumamoto, known for its "Konotori no Yurikago" (storks' cradle) baby hatch, will start a program allowing women to give birth while keeping their names secret, a senior official has said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 16, 2017
Kumamoto 'baby hatch' hospital proposes anonymous childbirth
The hospital in Kumamoto that hosts Japan's only “baby hatch” is lobbying for a way to let women in unwanted pregnancies anonymously give birth.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 9, 2017
Kumamoto 'baby hatch' accepted 125 babies over nine years since launch
The 2007 launch of the service sparked controversy, with opponents regarding it as giving the green light to parents abandoning children.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Apr 15, 2017
Kumamoto baby hatch still delivers hope 10 years on
Early on the morning of April 15 last year, the president of a Kumamoto hospital with Japan's first baby hatch was relieved to hear the facility could continue after a major earthquake had just struck.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2016
As Kyushu hospital rocks from aftershocks, Kumamoto mom, 34, brings girl into world
About 13 minutes after the magnitude-7.3 quake hit Kyushu early Saturday morning, a baby girl was born in a hospital in the city of Kumamoto.
JAPAN / Society
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.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan's former PM Aso meets Trump for talks on security and economy
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in New York on Tuesday. The Japanese government’s top spokesman on Wednesday played down the meeting as one conducted "in the capacity of one lawmaker" and “without the government’s involvement.”
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.

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