Coin-operated-locker babies

Predominantly neonates and male babies, the murder of infants became a form of population control in Japan, being discovered 1–3 months after death, wrapped in plastic and appearing to have died of asphyxiation.

These actions included the relocation of coin-lockers to make them more visible, with additional patrol assigned to monitor the locker locations.

The women’s liberation movement, ūman ribu, was concerned with the biased treatment against criminalized mothers and criticized Japan’s family institution.

[4] The people who leave children in coin-operated-lockers can be a variety of ages, and this is a social factor that plays a large part in the child abandonment problem in Japan.

[4] There exists a taboo of sex, abortion, and unwanted pregnancies within the Japanese culture that contribute to the problem of child abandonment in Japan, making the solution of the coin-operated-locker much more attractive.

The classifications of the crimes are as follows: The existing laws in place to protect children from child abuse prevent many professionals from taking action.

[1] In response to the high child abandonment rate in Japan, Jikei Hospital introduced the idea of establishing the nation's first baby hatch.

Based on similar services found in Italy, Germany and South Korea, Jikei Hospital argued that the rate of abandonment would decrease by providing custody for children whose parents cannot give sufficient care.