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ChineseToday | Guardians of endangered trees in SW China

(240811) -- CHONGQING, Aug. 11, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers transplant Thuja sutchuenensis seedlings at a forestry base in Mangkam County, Qamdo, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, June 5, 2024. Wild Thuja sutchuenensis is an endangered species of gymnosperm endemic to China and under national first-class protection. In 1998, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared Thuja sutchuenensis extinct, but the species was rediscovered in Chengkou County in 1999. At present, the number of wild adult Thuja sutchuenensis plants in the world is less than 10,000, and they are only distributed in the areas of Daba Mountains including Kaizhou District and Chengkou County of Chongqing. In order to protect this endangered species, Yang Quan from Chongqing Xuebaoshan national nature reserve led a team to carry out the investigation and study of wild Thuja sutchuenensis communities, hoping to expand its population. Through years of efforts, the research team chose to take cuttings

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ChineseToday | Guardians of endangered trees in SW China

(240811) -- CHONGQING, Aug. 11, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Staff members of the Thuja sutchuenensis research base of Xuebaoshan national nature reserve transplant Thuja sutchuenensis seedlings at the research base in Kaizhou District of southwest China's Chongqing, April 26, 2024. Wild Thuja sutchuenensis is an endangered species of gymnosperm endemic to China and under national first-class protection. In 1998, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared Thuja sutchuenensis extinct, but the species was rediscovered in Chengkou County in 1999. At present, the number of wild adult Thuja sutchuenensis plants in the world is less than 10,000, and they are only distributed in the areas of Daba Mountains including Kaizhou District and Chengkou County of Chongqing. In order to protect this endangered species, Yang Quan from Chongqing Xuebaoshan national nature reserve led a team to carry out the investigation and study of wild Thuja sutchuenensis communities, hoping to expand its populat

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Wuzhizhou Island's Marine Ranch In Sanya - China

Tourists try to transplant corals under the guidance of coaches in the waters of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on Jan. 30, 2022. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To restore the ecological environment of nearby sea area, Wuzh

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(SP)CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-SPORTS-TOURISM-DIVING (CN)

(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Tourists try to transplant corals under the guidance of coaches in the waters of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on Jan. 30, 2022. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predat

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(SP)CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-SPORTS-TOURISM-DIVING (CN)

(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists try to transplant corals under the guidance of coaches in the waters of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on Jan. 30, 2022. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To restore

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CHINA-GUANGDONG-GUANGZHOU-ORGAN TRANSPLANT TECHNOLOGY (CN)

(240118) -- GUANGZHOU, Jan. 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- The ischemia-free organ transplantation (IFOT) is applied in a surgery carried out at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 12, 2023. An organ transplant technique adopted by a Chinese hospital has garnered widespread attention for its potential in solving the problem of donor organ ischemic injury in organ transplantation surgery. TO GO WITH "Across China: China's organ transplant technology maximizes donor-organ potential" (Photo by Zheng Yingzi/Xinhua)

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Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant

STORY: Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona 2. various of pictures of the surgery 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): ALBERT JAUREGUI, Head of the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplants Department at Vall d'Hebron 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): XAVIER, Lung transplant patient STORYLINE: Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has carried out the world's first fully robotic lung transplant using a minimally invasive technique that does not require cutting through bone. Surgeons announced on Monday that they utilized a four-armed "Da Vinci" medical robot to make an eight-centimeter incision above the diaphragm to remove the damaged lung and insert a new one. This groundbreaking procedure avoids the traditional method of separating the ribs to open up the thorax, which was the only available option until now. The doctors also noted that i

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Osaka hospital succeeds in novel heart valve transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka University professor Yoshiki Sawa (L) speaks at a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014, about the first successful transplant surgery in Japan to replace a heart valve with a decelluraized one from a deceased donor. The 35-year-old patient (R) underwent the surgery at the Osaka University Hospital on Oct. 16 and has recovered steadily.

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World's 1st transplant surgery using iPS cells conducted

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka holds a press conference in Kyoto on Sept. 12, 2014, after a Japanese research team transplanted retinal cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells to a woman in her 70s earlier in the day, marking the first time iPS-derived cells have been introduced into a human body by surgery. Yamanaka developed iPS cells, a type of stem cells that can grow into various human body tissue.

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World's 1st transplant surgery using iPS cells conducted

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, researcher of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, holds a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, after a Japanese research team led by Takahashi transplanted retinal cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells to a woman in her 70s. It marked the first time iPS-derived cells have been introduced into a human body by surgery.

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World's 1st transplant surgery using iPS cells conducted

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, researcher of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, smiles during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, after a Japanese research team led by Takahashi transplanted retinal cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells to a woman in her 70s. It marked the first time iPS-derived cells have been introduced into a human body by surgery.

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World's 1st iPS cell transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), project leader at Riken Center for Developmental Biology, inspects an experiment at Riken's stem cell culture laboratory in Kobe, western Japan, in February 2013. A Japanese team has recently conducted the world's first surgery to implant tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells into a human body as part of the clinical study led by Takahashi and others.

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World's 1st iPS cell transplant

KOBE, Japan - The operation room of the Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation Hospital in Kobe, western Japan, is seen on Sept. 10, 2014. The world's first surgery to implant retinal tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells into a human body was performed there in September 2014.

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World's 1st transplant surgery using iPS cells conducted

KOBE, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 10, 2014, shows the Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation Hospital in Kobe, western Japan. At the hospital on Sept. 12, a Japanese research team transplanted retinal cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells to a woman in her 70s, marking the first time iPS-derived cells have been introduced into a human body by surgery.

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Unique surgery done to treat newborn with heart disease

KYOTO, Japan - Surgeon Masaaki Yamagishi, a professor of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, uses models in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014, to explain what he calls the world's first surgery to transplant part of the lung artery of a newborn to treat her incomplete "descending aort."

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Cell sheet successfully transplanted to girl's heart

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshiki Sawa, a professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Osaka University Hospital, talks in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2014, about his team's successful transplant of a sheet of cells to the heart of an 11-year-old girl, stricken with a grave heart disease, and subsequent improvement in her heart's functions. The cells were cultivated after being taken from the girl's own calf muscle tissue. It is believed to be the world's first such surgery performed on a child.

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Transplant of donor's left lung to man's right lung

OKAYAMA, Japan - Associate professor Takahiro Oto at Okayama University Hospital explains the transplant of a brain-dead donor's left lung in place of a recipient's right lung, the first such successful operation in Japan, on July 3, 2014, in Okayama City.

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3D printer helpful in rare lung transplant in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Hiroshi Date (R) and a fellow doctor of Kyoto University Hospital on May 14, 2014, hold models of a chest region and a lung produced by a three-dimensional printer for priori simulation of a rare lung transplant from a living donor. In the operation claimed to be the world's first of its kind, the lower lobe of a man's right lung was rotated before being transplanted to the place of his wife's severely afflicted left lung which had been removed in advance.

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Part of mom's lung transplanted to 3-yr-old son

OKAYAMA, Japan - Takahiro Oto, associate professor of respiratory surgery at Okayama University Hospital, holds a press conference in Okayama City on the night of July 1, 2013, after the state-run university hospital successfully transplanted part of a mother's lung to her 3-year-old son in the world's first transplant of a middle lobe from a living donor. The boy, who had experienced a decline in lung function, is the youngest lung recipient in Japan, the hospital said.

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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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Child under 6 declared brain-dead for 1st time for organ transplant

TOYAMA, Japan - Journalists encircle a spokesman of Toyama University Hospital in Toyama city on the night of June 14, 2012, after the hospital declared a boy under age 6 brain-dead for the first time in Japan under the revised organ transplantation law. The child's organs are expected to be harvested for transplantation as a result of the family's consent.

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Child under 6 declared brain-dead for 1st time for organ transplant

TOYAMA, Japan - Journalists encircle a spokesman of Toyama University Hospital in Toyama city on the night of June 14, 2012, after the hospital declared a boy under age 6 brain-dead for the first time in Japan under the revised organ transplantation law. The child's organs are expected to be harvested for transplantation as a result of the family's consent.

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Child under 6 declared brain-dead for 1st time for organ transplant

TOKYO, Japan - Juntaro Ashikari (2nd from R, front), an official of the Japan Organ Transplant Network, holds a press conference at the health ministry in Tokyo on the night of June 14, 2012, after Toyama University Hospital in Toyama city declared a boy under age 6 as brain-dead for the first time in Japan under the revised organ transplantation law. The child's organs are expected to be harvested for transplantation as a result of the family's consent.

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Child under 6 declared brain-dead for 1st time for organ transplant

TOYAMA, Japan - Journalists gather in front of Toyama University Hospital on the night of June 14, 2012, after the hospital in Toyama city declared a boy under age 6 brain-dead for the first time in Japan under the revised organ transplantation law. The child's organs are expected to be harvested for transplantation as a result of the family's consent.

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Transplant of organs from minor

SENDAI, Japan - A medical team arrives at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on a chartered flight on April 13, 2011, carrying a cooler box containing lungs for transplant harvested from a minor who was declared brain dead the previous day. It was the first case in which a child aged under 15 has been declared brain dead with family consent in Japan. The airport in northeastern Japan partially resumed domestic flights the same day after the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

TOKYO, Japan - Juntaro Ashikari, an official of the Japan Organ Transplant Network, speaks during a press conference at the health ministry in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, on planned transplantations of organs of a boy aged between 10 and 14 who was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan the same day. The network is the only entity certified as an intermediary for organ transplants in Japan.

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Heart surgeon death

TOKYO, Japan - Juro Wada, then professor at Sapporo Medical University, speaks during a news conference at the university after conducting Japan's first heart transplant surgery in August 1968. Wada later faced an accusation of manslaughter over the surgery, which was eventually dropped due to insufficient evidence. Wada died of pneumonia at age 88 on Feb. 14, 2011.

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Heart surgeon death

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 1999 shows Juro Wada, a professor emeritus at Sapporo Medical University who performed Japan's first heart transplant surgery in 1968. Wada died of pneumonia at age 88 on Feb. 14, 2011.

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Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OKAYAMA, Japan - Members of the medical team that will harvest lungs from a brain-dead man, whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing, depart the Okayama University Hospital in the city of Okayama on August 9. 2010. The family's approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law.

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Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in the city of Suita in Osaka Prefecture on Aug. 9, 2010, which is planning to conduct a transplant operation using organs to be harvested from a brain-dead man whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing. The approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law

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Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in the city of Suita in Osaka Prefecture on August 9, 2010, which is planning to conduct a transplant operation using organs to be harvested from a brain-dead man whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing. The approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law

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Russian boy leaves hospital after treatment for serious burns

SAPPORO, Japan - Nikita Ryzhov, a 2-year-old Russian boy from Kunashiri Island, holds a bouquet of flowers at the Sapporo University Hospital in Hokkaido on Dec. 7 after he was discharged from the hospital where he underwent skin transplant operations for serious burns. Ryzhov was the first patient from one of the four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan to be transferred to a Japanese hospital for emergency treatment.

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1-yr-old leaves Miami hospital after multiple-organ transplant

MIAMI, United States - Ayaka Kandatsu, a Japanese girl suffering from a rare intestinal disorder, celebrates her first birthday with her father Ryoji (L) and mother Hiromi on Jan. 10, joined by Dr. Tomoaki Kato (R) who gave her a multiple-organ transplant operation at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital. Ayaka was discharged from the hospital earlier in the day.

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Pioneering lung transplant recipient leaves hospital

OSAKA, Japan - A man (R), who received Japan's first transplant of both lungs from a brain-dead donor, holds a news conference with doctors at Osaka University Hospital on May 18 before leaving the hospital the same day. The man in his 30s, whose name was withheld, suffered from pulmonary hypertension. He said, ''It is like a dream that I can walk outside on my own feet. I feel happy to be alive.''

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Japan's 1st intestine transplant from brain-dead donor held

KYOTO, Japan - A girl is carried by doctors at Kyoto University Hospital in Kyoto for the first small intestine transplant from a brain-dead donor in Japan on Jan. 21. The transplant is part of the nation's 11th set of transplants from such donors since the procedure was legalized in 1997.

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Heart from brain-dead donor arrives in Osaka

Doctors arrive at Osaka airport by helicopter, carrying an icebox containing a heart removed from a brain-dead donor in Kochi, western Japan, on Feb. 28. The heart was later transplanted into a patient at Osaka University Hospital, marking Japan's first heart transplant since a law permitting such operations took effect in October 1997.

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Japan's 1st lung transplant patient leaves hospital

The recipient of Japan's first lung transplant (L) from living donors is presented bouquet on Dec. 28 as she was discharged from the Okayama University Hospital two months after the operation. The woman's name has been withheld.

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Japan's first lung transplant operation

A medical team of Okayama University Hospital, led by Professor Nobuyoshi Shimizu (R), walks into an operating theater on Wednesday Oct. 28 for Japan's first lung transplant operation on a 24-year-old woman. In the seven-hour operation, half of the left lung of the woman's 48-year-old mother and one-third of the right lung of her 21-year-old sister will be transplanted.

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13-month-old baby in Madrid gets intestine transplant in pioneering operation

STORY: 13-month-old baby in Madrid gets intestine transplant in pioneering operation DATELINE: Oct. 12, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:44 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of transplant at Madrid's La Paz Hospital 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): DANIEL, Emma's father 3. various of doctors at Madrid's La Paz Hospital 4. various of Emma 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): BELEN ESTEBANZ, Medical Coordinator for Transplants, Madrid's La Paz Hospital 6. various of Emma, her parents and the doctor team at Madrid's La Paz Hospital STORYLINE: A 13-month-old baby girl Emma has become the first person in the world to receive a multivisceral intestine transplant from a donation carried out in controlled asystole. It was confirmed on Tuesday by the medical team at Madrid's La Paz Hospital, where the operation was carried out. Asystole donation means that the donor has already died and although intestine transplant operations from living donors have been possible, this is the first time an intestine has been transplanted fr

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China-aided hospital in Sri Lanka completes 1st organ transplant

STORY: China-aided hospital in Sri Lanka completes 1st organ transplant DATELINE: March 19, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:52 LOCATION: Colombo CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the hospital 2 various of the surgery 3 various of the hospital STORYLINE: The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently. It's the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital in 2021. The recipient of the transplant is a 28-year-old woman who had been suffering from kidney disease for 10 years and the kidney donator is her mother. The mother and daughter are in stable condition after the surgery, and both the medical staff and the patient are very satisfied with the results of the operation. The specialized nephrology hospital was built with the assistance of the Chinese government. It has an area of 25,000 square meters, featuring 200 general inpatient beds and 100 hemodialysis beds. Xinhua News Agency correspondent

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SRI LANKA-POLONNARUWA-CHINA-AIDED HOSPITAL-KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SURGERY

(220318) -- POLONNARUWA, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 14, 2022 shows the China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital, a specialized nephrology hospital in Sri Lanka built with the assistance of the Chinese government, has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently, the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital. (Xinhua/Tang Lu)

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SRI LANKA-POLONNARUWA-CHINA-AIDED HOSPITAL-KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SURGERY

(220318) -- POLONNARUWA, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A medical worker attends to the recipient of a kidney transplant in an ICU of the China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, March 17, 2022. The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital, a specialized nephrology hospital in Sri Lanka built with the assistance of the Chinese government, has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently, the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital. (Shaanxi Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd./Handout via Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-POLONNARUWA-CHINA-AIDED HOSPITAL-KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SURGERY

(220318) -- POLONNARUWA, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A medical worker attends to the recipient of a kidney transplant in an ICU of the China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, March 17, 2022. The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital, a specialized nephrology hospital in Sri Lanka built with the assistance of the Chinese government, has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently, the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital. (Shaanxi Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd./Handout via Xinhua)

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SRI LANKA-POLONNARUWA-CHINA-AIDED HOSPITAL-KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SURGERY

(220318) -- POLONNARUWA, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Medical staff prepare for a kidney transplant surgery at the China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, March 14, 2022. The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital, a specialized nephrology hospital in Sri Lanka built with the assistance of the Chinese government, has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently, the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital. (Xinhua/Tang Lu)

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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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Woman makes progress 1 year after world's 1st iPS cell transplant

Masayo Takahashi (R), a Riken researcher, holds a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Oct. 2, 2015, to announce that a woman in her 70s is making good progress in her eye disease treatment after the world's first transplant using iPS-derived cells a year ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Kobe hospital to halt liver transplant surgeries after 4 deaths

Photo taken April 14, 2015, shows the Kobe International Frontier Medical Center in western Japan. The hospital that opened last November in Kobe where four out of seven liver transplant recipients died in its first four months said on April 18 it will halt the operations for the time being. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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4 of 7 liver transplant recipients died at brand-new Kobe hospital

Photo taken on April 14, 2015 shows the Kobe International Frontier Medical Center in Kobe, western Japan. The hospital, which opened in November 2014, saw a very high death rate among liver transplant recipients in its first four months of operation, officials at the hospital said the same day. Of the seven patients who received the transplants from living donors, four died within one month after their surgeries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese researcher hopes to lower cost of iPS cell transplant

Masayo Takahashi, a Riken institute project leader and member of the team that conducted the world's first transplant using iPS-derived cells in 2014, gives a talk at the Kansai Press Club in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 25, 2015. Takahashi said she hopes to find ways to lower the cost of such transplants and make them a standard treatment in the future. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian boy leaves hospital after treatment for serious burns

SAPPORO, Japan - Nikita Ryzhov, a 2-year-old Russian boy from Kunashiri Island, holds a bouquet of flowers at the Sapporo University Hospital in Hokkaido on Dec. 7 after he was discharged from the hospital where he underwent skin transplant operations for serious burns. Ryzhov was the first patient from one of the four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan to be transferred to a Japanese hospital for emergency treatment. (Kyodo)