TRANSPLANT IN JAPAN
No Charge Of Murder
(N Z.PA.'Reuter—Copyright) SAPPORO (Japan), Sept. 2.
The Sapporo District Prosecutor’s Office said today that because of insufficient evidence it had decided against indicting Japan's only heart transplant surgeon on charges of murder.
Officials in Sapporo have been studying a complaint, filed in December, 1968, by six Chinese herbalists who charged the surgeon, Dr J. Wadai, with murder and manslaughter through professional negligence. The 48-year-old surgeon carried out a transplant—the world’s thirtieth—on August 8, 1968, on Mr Nobuo Miyazaki, aged 18, using the heart of a 21-year-old male who had died by drowning. Mr Miyazaki died 83 days later, and Dr Wada attributed bis death to an obstruction of the larynx. Today's announcement came after local officials had consulted with the supreme prosecutor’s office in Tokyo.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32392, 3 September 1970, Page 11
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