
KUMAMOTO -- Koichi Miyatsu does not remember much about that day when, as a toddler, he was left in the "baby hatch" of a Kumamoto hospital. Now 18, he only has a vague memory of "something like a door."
Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto had set up its depository for unwanted babies, which it calls Konotori no Yurikago (the stork's cradle), in May 2007. That was where Koichi would gain a new life and new identity.