Japan's 9th set of organ transplants gets under way

KYOTO, Japan - A doctor (R) from Hokkaido University transporting a liver arrives at Kyoto University Hospital as Japan's ninth set of organ transplant operations got under way Nov. 5 on two women, one in her 40s and another in her 50s, from organs donated by a brain-dead woman in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Earlier in the day, doctors at Hokkaido University removed two organs from the donor -- a kidney for the younger woman at the municipal hospital in Sapporo and a liver for the older woman in Kyoto. The liver was transported to Kyoto by plane and Shinkansen bullet train.

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