Organs transported

OSAKA, Japan - Organs removed from a brain dead man at a hospital in western Japan are transported via Kansai International Airport near Osaka for transplant on Aug. 19, 2010. The man's family consented for his organs to be donated, although he had not expressed his intentions in writing, the second such case in Japan under a revised organ transplant law. (Kyodo)

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