Public opinion on an anonymous baby drop box is improving, according to the hospital in southern Japan that operates the facility, amid media reports that six infants have been left there in three months.

A Japanese hospital has opened the country's only anonymous drop box for unwanted children.

JAPAN’S first abandoned baby “hatch”, where mothers can drop off babies they can’t care for, completed a test run yesterday with a doll, clearing the way for the controversial facility to start operating.