The criminal case over an overseas organ transplant underscores the chronic shortage of available organs in Japan and the lengths and risks Japanese patients will take to avoid the waiting list here.
The head of a Japanese nonprofit organization has been arrested on suspicion of mediating an organ transplant performed overseas without government permission, in the first such case in Japan, investigative sources said on Feb. 9.
Under the transplant law, unauthorized mediation is prohibited, and violators are punished with imprisonment of up to one year, a fine of up to ¥1 million or both.
The leader of a nonprofit organization was arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of mediating an organ transplant overseas without receiving approval from the health minister.
The head of a Japanese nonprofit organization has been arrested on suspicion of mediating an organ transplant performed overseas without government permission, in the first such case in Japan, investigative sources said Thursday. Police have filed a case against the Association for Patients of Intractable Diseases with prosecutors following the…