Recipient of 1st heart transplant meets press

Recipient of 1st heart transplant meets press

OSAKA, Japan - The man with his back to the camera received a heart in Japan's first legal transplant from a brain-dead donor last February. Speaking to reporters on Feb. 25 ahead of the one-year anniversary of his operation, the man in his 40s said, ''I am really happy living together with my family.'' Other recipients received the liver, kidneys and corneas of the same donor in a series of operations conducted from Feb. 28 to March 1 under a 1997 law permitting organ transplants from brain-dead donors.

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