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Traditionally, midwives in Japan continuously share strong relationships with the families of the baby they delivered. Because Japanese people believe that babies are transferred to humans by god and that midwives are people who facilitate the process, midwives often stay as godmothers of babies that they help deliver.
The 758,631 babies born in Japan in 2023 were a 5.1% decline from the previous year, according to the Health and Welfare Ministry. It was the lowest number of births since Japan started compiling ...
In response to the high child abandonment rate in Japan, Jikei Hospital introduced the idea of establishing the nation's first baby hatch. A baby hatch or baby box is a place where people, typically mothers can bring babies, usually newborn, and abandon them anonymously in a safe place to be found and cared for. The idea was made public in late ...
Pages in category "2024 in Japan" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
8 July – Japan and the Philippines sign a defense pact which allows the deployment of Japanese forces to the Philippines for military exercises. [75] 12 July – Three people are killed in a landslide in Matsuyama. [76] 16 July – A man sets himself on fire at the city hall of Takahama, Aichi Prefecture, injuring himself and three city ...
People react during a countdown event to celebrate the New Year in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 1, 2025.
Attending a miyamairi at a shrine in Tokyo. Miyamairi (宮参り, literally "shrine visit") is a traditional Shinto rite of passage in Japan for newborns. Approximately one month after birth (31 days for boys and 33 days for girls [1]), parents and grandparents bring the child to a Shinto shrine, to express gratitude to the deities for the birth of a baby and have a shrine priest pray for ...
Shichi-Go-San ritual at a Shinto shrine A young girl dressed traditionally for Shichi-Go-San Kunisada. Shichi-Go-San is said to have originated in the Heian period amongst court nobles who would celebrate the passage of their children into middle childhood, but it is also suggested that the idea was originated from the Muromachi period due to high infant mortality.