"Baby hatch" highlights Japan fears over adoption
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When a newborn baby girl was left in Japan's controversial "baby hatch" last week, the child's life may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
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A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy who was rescued from a crushed car suffers intense fear and asks about his mother who was buried today, a week after a major earthquake struck Japan, doctors said.
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Going abroad for a sunshine break before trying for a baby may not be a good idea, fertility experts says.
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PARIS -- Fears are strong in Japan about China's rise as a military power, and negative feelings toward China among the Japanese have increased sharply over the past four years, a new international survey has found.
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Tokyo: Japan said on Friday it had not given up hope for a Japanese hostage in Iraq after a report he may have been killed, as the 24-year-old&#39;s mother pleaded to Islamic militants to spare him.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Mothers deciding to place their infants for adoption deserve better counseling, more time to change their minds, and more support in trying to keep track of the children they relinquish, a leading adoption institute recommends in a sweeping new report.
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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TOKYO -- With a surfeit of the old and a shortage of the young, Japan is on course for a population collapse unlike any in human history.
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A recent surge in product recalls has many fearing that Japan may be losing its edge to South Korea and China.
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Japanâs nationalists are fanning fury over abductions decades ago by North Korea, still a burning issue.
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The number of Japanese homeless is on the rise, and cultural attitudes about age are exacerbating the situation.
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Talks on resuming US beef imports to Japan hit a new snag when Tokyo rejected Washington's proposals for determining the age of cows to be exempted from tests for mad cow disease, officials said.
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China is imposing new restrictions on foreign adoptions, barring applicants who are unmarried, obese, over 50 or who take antidepressants, according to U.S. adoption agencies.
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This was the scene recently at a children's home in Antigua, Guatemala, before police removed 46 babies, suspecting they had been kidnapped or coerced from their parents to be put up for foreign adoption.
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JAPAN&#39;S troop deployment in Iraq beyond December is at risk as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi braces for a wave of public anger over the nightmare ending to the country&#39;s second Baghdad hostage crisis.
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More than 10 percent of Japanese  teenagers who were screened for a sexual disease that can cause  infertility tested positive, a newspaper reported, adding to  concerns about increasing sexual activity among Japan's youth.
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The me-first attitude that makes the social networking site so successful in the United States may not play well in Japan, a more socially integrated society. By the Associated Press.