The occupancy rate of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in serious condition in Tokyo has reached the most severe stage, and scientists warn that the situation could rapidly worsen in the coming weeks. The occupancy rate hit 52 percent, putting that ...

A Tokyo hospital on Monday became the Japanese capital's first medical institution to offer a system allowing the safe, anonymous drop-off of infants by parents unable to raise them. Used for centuries globally, so-called baby boxes or baby hatches are ...

A Tokyo hospital has launched a “baby hatch”, becoming the city’s first and the country’s second medical institution to offer parents a safe, anonymous drop-off method for infants they can’t look after. The Inochi no Basuketto, or basket of life ...