Japan boasts highly skilled surgeons, universal health insurance coverage, well-equipped medical facilities — and few organ transplants.
But this will change, experts say, now that the revised Organ Transplant Law is in effect.
Before July, when the new law took effect, anyone 15 or older who died from heart stoppage or was declared brain dead could be an organ donor provided there was prior written consent.
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