Organ Donation in Japan

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8 However many developed countries such as the United States France Spain Belgium the Netherlands Germany and South Korea have adopted legislation regarding potential donor referral. Japan is the fifthlargest donor to education increasing focus on training for industry science and technology. In todays society heart and liver .

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As of 1996 the Japan Transplant Society estimates that there are 387 to 1264 patients in need of heart transplants. Michael is Jewish and Kenji is Japanese and even though they come from very different backgrounds they soon discovered they shared a similar dilemma. In many countries organ transplantation has come to be viewed as a general medical procedure but in Japan it is only done in extremely special . Organ transplantation in Japan is regulated by the 1997 Organ Transplant Law which legalized organ procurement from brain dead donors. On September 18 Yoshikis U.S.based charitable nonprofit organization the Yoshiki Foundation America announced that the musician has made a 10 millionyen US92600 donation to the Japanese Red Cross Society to be used for recovery aid for typhoonstricken parts of Chiba. However the number of deceased donor transplants is still quite small and further efforts to increase deceased organ donation continue to be of utmost necessity in Japan. The revised Organ Transplant Law came into effect in Japan in July 2010. Many academic hypotheses such as cultural barriers the Japanese concept of the. In Japan 40 human organs for transplant have been donated since 1997 to 2006. Wada in 1968 failed and a subsequent ban on cadaveric organ donation lasted 30 years. The number of deceased donor kidney transplants DDKTs is much less than that of other developed Asian and Western countries although donation after brain death is increasing slowly.