&quot;Baby hatch&quot; highlights Japan fears over adoption
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When a newborn baby girl was left in  Japan&#39;s controversial &quot;baby hatch&quot; last week, the child&#39;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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Daisuke Matsuzaka wasn't having any of it. He wanted no part of the question, or its answer. When asked where his wife would be giving birth - a scenario that might affect his team, based on his availability for its jaunt to Japan - Matsuzaka asked for privacy, saying, "She's just in a very sort of ...
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Adoptions are increasingly in the headlines around the world. Some Hollywood celebrities have been in the news recently for adopting children abroad, and there has been a renewed interest in the plight of orphaned children. What is the annual number of child adoptions worldwide?
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Conservatives keen to keep women from   ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne are hoping this week will   bring the answer to their prayers: the birth of Japan's first   imperial male heir in more than four decades.
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A Japanese obstetrician said on Sunday he had helped two couples have babies through surrogate mothers over the past two years, criticizing moves by academics to make the practice illegal.
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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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Life & style:  Kate Hilpern investigates a dramatic rise in the number of newborns up for adoption
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Japan is expected to report fewer babies  born in 2007, a government report said on Tuesday, kicking off  the new year with a bleak reminder of the long-term risks the  economy faces as its population ages at an unprecedented pace.
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arrived on a remote island in northern Japan to start a new life with his Japanese wife and their two daughters. court-martial last month after saying he deserted from South Korea because he was frightened.
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Suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals, Japan is in the midst of a growing craze for Indian education.
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Charles Robert Jenkins, the husband of former abductee Hitomi Soga, was pressured by North Korean officials to refuse Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s invitation to go with him to Japan, an interview has revealed.
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TOKYO -- A 60-year-old woman impregnated in the United States via in-vitro fertilization will become what is believed to be the oldest single mother in Japan to give birth from a donated egg, medical officials said Thursday.
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Citigroup&#39;s top executive in Japan endured unprecedented questioning by lawmakers on Tuesday over a scandal at the firm&#39;s private bank in the country, the latest turn in a high-profile case that has embarrassed the world&#39;s biggest
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Japan's ruling bloc lost a key local election on Sunday, a possible bellwether of public support after a Cabinet minister caused an uproar by calling women "birth-giving machines."
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Japan's main share index falls sharply, hit by fears about the state of both the Japanese and US economies.
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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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Fear of rejection and concerns about the  reaction of the child prevent many parents from telling their  children they have been conceived with donated sperm,  scientists said on Wednesday.