KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Once a week, Rena Shinohara heads off to work, clocking in for a shift at a job one could say she was born to do. Rena, 18 months, is a baby worker at a Japanese nursing home, ...
There is an unexpected noise echoing through the halls of the Ichoan Nursing Home in Japan these days — the sound of toddler giggles. The nursing home began "employing" toddlers to raise the spirits ...