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 ...

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 ...

A baby has been left for the first time at a "baby hatch" that opened at a hospital in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward on March 31. The “baby hatch” is for a parent or parents to anonymously leave newborn infants ...

A hospital in Tokyo, Japan is doing something extraordinary and unconventional to tackle an issue that is rampant across the world -- that of infant abandonment. Many new parents, or single mothers, ...

Japan will treat two injured Ukrainian soldiers at a Tokyo hospital run by its Self-Defense Force, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, Tokyo's latest support measure following Russia's invasion of ...

TOKYO -- A public hospital here did not obtain written consent from 21 of 24 patients who died after they discontinued dialysis or never underwent such treatment from the beginning, the Tokyo ...

TOKYO (REUTERS) - More than 90 per cent of hospital beds secured for Covid-19 patients in Tokyo have already been occupied, the Japanese Health Ministry said on Sunday (May 10), underscoring the ...

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