Sample newspaper article

牌が圄てられない橿ちゃんを停兆で圓け秘れる忽坪率匯の仏譜仝こうのとりのゆりかご々┳爐舛磴鵐櫂好硲は4埖10晩、塰喘蝕兵から10定となる。更覿僚廚らm倦をめぐる胎尸がAく嶄、2015定業までの9定寂に125繁の凋がされた。

O崔麼悶の竿{押垪俑云偏の瓘湊屈尖並Lは9晩怜瘁、偏坪で宀氏し仝煩撫?竃bを繁に岑られたくない繁に、芦伉して橿ちゃんをAけてもらいたいと房って兵めた。橿ちゃんの凋を便るという泣で叨朕を惚たせた々と峰べた。 (KYODO)

Words and phrases

H (おや parent

圄てられない (そだてられない) can¨t bring up

橿ちゃん (あかちゃん) baby

停兆で (とくめいで) under anonymity

Aけ秘れる (あずけいれる) entrust, leave

忽坪率匯 (こくないゆいいつ) only one nationwide

仏O (しせつ) facility

こうのとり stork

ゆりかご cradle

4埖10晩 (しがつとうか) April 10

\喘 (うんよう operation

_兵 (かいし) start

10定 (じゅうねん) 10 years

覿鈴A (こうそうだんかい) planning stage

m倦 (さんぴ) approval and disapproval, for and against

めぐる concerning

尸 (ろんそう) debate

Aく (つづく) continue

嶄 (なか) amid

2015定業 (にせんじゅうごねんど) fiscal 2015

9定g (きゅうねんかん) nine-year period

125繁 (ひゃくにじゅうごにん) 125 people

凋 (いのち) life

された (たくされた) was entrusted

O崔麼悶 (せっちしゅたい) establishing body

竿{押垪 (じけいびょういん) Jikei Hospital

俑云偏 (くまもとし) Kumamoto City

瓘湊屈尖並L (はすだたいじりじちょう) President Taiji Hasuda

9晩怜瘁 (ここのかごご) on the afternoon of April 9

偏坪 (しない) in the city

宀氏し (きしゃかいけんし) held a press conference

煩撫 (にんしん) pregnancy

竃b (しゅっさん) delivery, child birth

繁 (ひと) people

岑られたくない (しられたくない) don¨t want to be known

芦伉して (あんしんして) feel safe to

もらいたい want

房って (おもって) thought

兵めた (はじめた) started

という泣で (というてんで) in terms of

叨朕 (やくめ) role

惚たせた (はたせた) was able to

峰べた (のべた) said

Quick questions

1) 晩云には仝こうのとりのゆりかご々のような仏Oはほかにいくつありますか。

2) 橿ちゃんポストをO崔したのはどんなCvですか。

3) 竿{押垪の尖並Lは、仏Oを兵めた尖喇を宀氏でどうh苧しましたか。

Translation

^Konotori no yurikago ̄ (the baby hatch) ! the nation¨s only facility where parents unable to raise their babies can anonymously leave them ! will mark its 10th anniversary since it started operating on April 10. Since its planning stage, there have been disputes between those for and against the facility, but in the nine years up to March 2014 (fiscal 2015) the lives of 125 babies had been entrusted to the service.

President Taiji Hasuda of the Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, which set up the hatch, held a press conference in the city on the afternoon of April 9. ^We began (this facility) to allow people who do not want their (pregnancy and delivery) to be known to feel safe in entrusting their babies to us. We have managed to fulfill our role in protecting the lives of babies, ̄ he said.

Answers

1) How many other facilities like the ^Konotori no yurikgo ̄ are there in Japan?

ほかにはない。忽坪率匯なので。 None. It¨s the only one in the country.

2) What sort of institution set up the ^baby hatch^?

俑云の竿{押垪。 Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto.

3) How did the president of Jikei Hospital explain the reasons behind establishing the facility?

繁に煩撫や竃bを岑られたくない繁たちに芦伉して橿ちゃんをAけてもらいたいと房って兵めたと峰べた。 He said he started the facility so people who didn¨t want their pregnancy and delivery to be known could feel safe in entrusting their babies there.