Top Image: Nurses attend three newly born babies at the National Hospital in Wakamatsu at the six day free inspection; December 8, 1952. Bottom Image: Mothers bring babies to six day inspection at the Shirokiya Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo; June 1956.

From: From: Ichiokunin no Shōwashi, Vol. 6 (Shōwa History of One Hundred Million People). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha; June 1976.