Brain-dead man becomes Japan's 2nd organ donor

Brain-dead man becomes Japan's 2nd organ donor

Members of the media await outside Tokyo's Keio University Hospital, where a male patient was legally confirmed brain-dead early on the morning of May 12, paving the way for him to become Japan's second organ donor under the 1997 Organ Transplant Law.

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