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.
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