Interesting Japanese articles

Here is an interesting article that was in Japan Today today about infant abandonment in Japan. It talks briefly about the reasons birthmothers abandoned their babies:

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/15-babies-left-at-kumamoto-baby-hatch-in-fiscal-2009

This is an old article, but it goes into more detail about the stigma associated with single motherhood in Japan, which is very interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/13/world/stigma-curtails-single-motherhood-in-japan.html?sec=&spon=