Organ transplant law revised to recognize brain deaths

Organ transplant law revised to recognize brain deaths

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a plenary session of the House of Councillors which enacted on July 13 a revised Organ Transplant Law. The revised law recognizes people who are brain dead as legally deceased and paves the way for children under 15 also to be organ donors amid mounting calls from patients' and doctors' groups to increase opportunities for transplants.

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