WORLD : Japanese Woman Has 18th Baby
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TOKYO — A 44-year old woman has given birth to her 18th child at a hospital east of Tokyo, and newspapers said today she has set a modern record for the most number of babies born to one woman in Japan.
Hisako Misu gave birth to a boy Friday. He was the 18th child for her and her husband, Kunihiro, a 45-year-old carpenter, said officials at Yachimata General Hospital in Chiba prefecture. The woman’s first child, a son, was born when she was 19.
The couple has 10 sons and eight daughters.
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