8 babies left at 'baby hatch' in Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Taiji Hasuda, president of Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, speaks at a press conference in the southwestern Japanese city on May 22, 2012. Eight infants were left during fiscal 2011 at the ''baby hatch'' facility for unwanted newborns set up at the hospital, the lowest number since it opened in May 2007, the Kumamoto city office said the same day.

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