Researcher Moriguchi returns to Japan

Researcher Moriguchi returns to Japan

NARITA, Japan - Researcher Hisashi Moriguchi meets the press at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2012, after arriving from the United States. The same day, the Japanese government and universities began looking into research projects involving Moriguchi, who falsely claimed he had implemented the world's first clinical trial using a trailblazing stem cell technology.

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