In a hatch at a hospital in southern Japan's Kumamoto, children can be left anonymously by a desperate family. Instituted in 2007, 161 babies and toddlers have been left in the hatch in 15 years, but opinions are divided whether it encourages abandonment of children or gives them a new lease of life
Kumamoto, Japan: Inside Koichi Miyatsu's blue, child-sized backpack are neatly folded cartoon-print sweatshirts and a pair of white sneakers—all he has from before he was left at Japan's only "baby hatch".