Kindergarten pupils participate in a bean-throwing ceremony to drive away evils and bring good luck during the annual Setsubun festival at Tokyo’s Sensoji Temple, 03 February 2007.
Plans for Japan’s first “baby hatch,” where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously, are suffering labour pains as the country struggles with its declining birth rate.(Photography courtesy of AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
When I first saw the headline in the newspaper about “Japan’s first baby hatch,” I honestly thought that scientists here had developed a way to produce human children from eggs. . .
I think I have been in Japan too long. . .
That picture is so cute.