THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 29, 2022 at 19:00 JST
Takeshi Hasuda, right, the head of Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, speaks at an Aug. 25 news conference. Makoto Hasuda, left, is in charge of the hospital’s office for consultations about newborns. (Rina Horikoshi)
The government will soon release its first guidelines on confidential births in response to calls from a hospital and municipality that had been left on their own to grapple with the issue, sources said. [Read More]
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