The weekly photo magazine Friday published a closeup picture of the late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi taken apparently after he suffered a massive stroke and fell into a coma on April 2.
The picture, featured in the issue that went on sale Friday, shows Obuchi, who died Sunday, six weeks after he collapsed, lying in a hospital bed attached to an artificial respirator in the intensive care unit of Juntendo University Hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
The magazine does not specify the date of the photo, but medical sources believe the picture was taken shortly after Obuchi was moved into the ICU on April 2.