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Down the Hatch

Down the Hatch

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Philip Bowring
May 11, 2007
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“Hatch for unwanted babies.”

It is a headline over the kind of weird story that sometimes seems to be a Japanese specialty. But it actually could mean a lot about the extraordinary demographic changes taking place throughout the developed world – in Asia even more than in Europe.

The “hatch” in question has been opened at locations around Japan for women …

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