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Japanese Flock to China for Organ Transplants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill  and
Clifford Coonan
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When Hokamura Kenichiro's kidneys failed, he waited over four years for a transplant before going online to check out rumors of organs for sale.

As a native of Japan, where less than 10 kidney transplants are performed a year, the 62-year- old businessman was desperate. “There are 100 people waiting in this prefecture alone and there were just three operations performed here last year. I would have died before getting a donor.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , 16 April 2006 , e9
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