Masakuni Suzuki, Japan's pioneer of test-tube babies, dies at 94

File photo taken in March 1983 shows a team of fertility specialists at Tohoku University, led by Masakuni Suzuki (in suit seated L), announcing their success in Japan's first in-vitro fertilization, at the university in Sendai, northeastern Japan. Suzuki, an honorary member of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine, died of pancreatic cancer on Nov. 23, 2015, at Suzuki Memorial Hospital in northeastern Japan, the hospital said. He was 94. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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