As of May last year, 179 babies and toddlers have reportedly been left at Jikei's baby hatch. At Sanikukai in Tokyo, when a baby is put in the basket, a motion sensor immediately alerts hospital ...

San-ikukai Hospital in Tokyo, started a "baby hatch" to anonymously accept newborns whose parents cannot raise them, and a ...

The Welfare Department offers mothers who use baby hatch facilities in the state a period of one month to reclaim their ...

Japan opened its first baby hatch, called Konotori no Yurigago, or stork’s cradle, nearly two decades ago in 2007, in Jikei Hospital in the city of Kumamoto.

Bald eagle eggs typically take 35 days to hatch. But this season’s eggs were laid while the livestream was down, meaning that fans couldn’t be exactly sure when the first chick would appear.