Abe testifies

Takeshi ABE, former chief of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study group, testifies on April 17, 1996 before the Health and Welfare Committee of the House of Councilors over ministry-sanctioned provision of HIV-tainted blood products to hemophiliacs.

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