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Organ transplants from brain-dead donors

TOKYO, Japan - Archived photo shows a news conference given by officials of the Japanese Red Cross Kochi Hospital in Kochi city in February 1992 regarding a patient, the first potential organ donor under the organ transplant law enacted in 1997.

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Akita hospital head announces brain death

AKITA, Japan - Kazuhiko Takano (R), head of Yuri Kumiai General Hospital in Honjo, Akita Prefecture, announces at a news conference at the hospital on April 15 that a female patient in her 40s was confirmed legally brain-dead. She is likely to become the sixth organ donor in Japan under the 1997 Organ Transplant Law.

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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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Female donor's organs to be transplanted to 7

OSAKA, Japan - A patient is brought to an operation room at Osaka University Hospital in western Japan on March 29 in Japan's first lung transplants from a brain-dead donor under the 1997 Organ Transplant Law. Organs extracted from a female patient confirmed legally brain-dead the previous day at a Tokyo hospital will be transplanted to seven patients, including the Osaka patient, at six medical institutions. This photo was provided by Osaka University Hospital.

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Akita hospital head announces brain death

AKITA, Japan - Kazuhiko Takano (R), head of Yuri Kumiai General Hospital in Honjo, Akita Prefecture, announces at a news conference at the hospital on April 15 that a female patient in her 40s was confirmed legally brain-dead. She is likely to become the sixth organ donor in Japan under the 1997 Organ Transplant Law.

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Recipient of 1st heart transplant meets press

OSAKA, Japan - The man with his back to the camera received a heart in Japan's first legal transplant from a brain-dead donor last February. Speaking to reporters on Feb. 25 ahead of the one-year anniversary of his operation, the man in his 40s said, ''I am really happy living together with my family.'' Other recipients received the liver, kidneys and corneas of the same donor in a series of operations conducted from Feb. 28 to March 1 under a 1997 law permitting organ transplants from brain-dead donors.

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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. ==Kyodo