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Activist Kawada set to win seat in upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuhei Kawada, an activist known for his fight against the state and a pharmaceutical company in a lawsuit over tainted blood products given to hemophiliacs like himself, waves to supporters in Tokyo on July 29 after becoming assured of winning a House of Councillors seat in the day's election.

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Green Cross-Excutives appologise

Green Cross executives (Takehiko Kawano, the president of the Green Cross - 2nd from left) appologize at the press conference on March 14, 1996. Green Cross sold unsterilized blood products in March 1985 and did not recall the products even after the company began selling safe, heated agents in January 1986. Hundreds of hemophiliacs filed damage suits in Tokyo and Osaka against the company.

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People line up to hear prosecutors' arguments in Abe case

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on July 26 for tickets to hear the prosecution's closing arguments in the trial of Takeshi Abe. A former top authority on hemophilia, Abe is at the center of a scandal involving the HIV infection of nearly 1,500 hemophiliacs by unheated blood-clotting agents.

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Ex-AIDS study group chief Abe testifies

Takeshi Abe, former chief of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study group, testifies July 23 as a sworn witness before the Diet over ministry-sanctioned provision of HIV-tainted blood products to hemophiliacs.

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Abe testifies

Takeshi ABE, former chief of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study group, testifies on April 17, 1996 before the Health and Welfare Committee of the House of Councilors over ministry-sanctioned provision of HIV-tainted blood products to hemophiliacs.

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March against Government

Demonstraton against the- government by hemophiliacs who were infected with HIV through contaminated imported blood products. A victim (Ryuhei KAWADA) and his mother. (Photo taken in Tokyo on July 24, 1995)

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March against Government

Demonstraton against the government by hemophiliacs, who were infected with HIV through contaminated imported blood products, with their supporters. (Picture taken in Osaka on December 12, 1995)

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Green_Cross-Excutives_appologise

Green Cross executives (Takehiko Kawano, the president of the Green Cross - 2nd from left) appologize at the press conference on March 14, 1996. . Green Cross sold unsterilized blood products in March 1985 and did not recall the products even after the company began selling safe, heated agents in January 1986. Hundreds of hemophiliacs filed damage suits in Tokyo and Osaka against the company.

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Activist Kawada set to win seat in upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuhei Kawada, an activist known for his fight against the state and a pharmaceutical company in a lawsuit over tainted blood products given to hemophiliacs like himself, waves to supporters in Tokyo on July 29 after becoming assured of winning a House of Councillors seat in the day's election. (Kyodo)

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Prosecution demands 3-yr term for doctor in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Takeshi Abe, 84, a former top authority on hemophilia who is at the center of a scandal involving the infection of nearly 1,500 hemophiliacs with HIV who used unheated blood-clotting agents. Prosecutors on July 26 demanded that Abe receive a three-year prison sentence for his role in the mass infection. Abe has pleaded not guilty in the case.

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People line up to hear prosecutors' arguments in Abe case

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on July 26 for tickets to hear the prosecution's closing arguments in the trial of Takeshi Abe. A former top authority on hemophilia, Abe is at the center of a scandal involving the HIV infection of nearly 1,500 hemophiliacs by unheated blood-clotting agents.