Japan's vending machines are known for their ubiquity -- scattered throughout the country on city blocks, in train stations, as well as near-desolate areas in the countryside.Most sell beverages, but eggs, apples, hamburgers, and even fish stock are available, too. In a pinch, you can also get shirts, underwear, ties, and now, surgical masks. What else could one want?The answer, in a country concerned with its shrinking population and keen to encourage more births, appears to be babies' diapers and formula, now beginning to show up in machines in a number of locations nationwide.In Hokkaido…READ FULL ARTICLE
