A newborn baby was found dead in the snow in Shiogama earlier this year, shocking the local community and prompting residents to launch a program giving exhausted mothers a chance to rest while volunteers care for their children.The tragedy occurred in January, when a baby girl was discovered on a freezing morning in the port city of just over 50,000 people northeast of Sendai, the local hub in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region.Police arrested her mother, a woman in her 20s, on suspicion of murder for burying the newborn in the snow after giving birth to her at home. The case was later dis…READ FULL ARTICLE
