Twelve pediatric hospitals, 40 percent of those designated by Japan’s Ministry of Health. Labor and Welfare to provide organs from donors under age 15, are unable to decide when brain death occurs or to handle bodies to preserve organs properly. See news report here The revised Organ Transplant Law went into effect on July 17, 2010.
It is simply another example of bureaucratic assumptions in Japan’s getting ahead of reality, without proper investigation of facts, and thereby jeopardising the success and public acceptance of a much needed program.
Oprah Winfrey, the famed and vastly wealthy US television personality, has chosen to have her fortune managed by a private financial adviser. Going back to the origins of the “family office,” started by John D. Rockefeller in the late 1800s, where wealth managers handle only a single client or family, Ms. Winfrey is going against ...
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As most now know, extraordinary tax savings are taking place for U.S. persons dying in 2010, because of failure by Congress to update the estate tax. The most dramatic example to date is that of Dan L. Duncan, a Texas pipeline tycoon and fanatic big game hunter who died in March, leaving an estate and ...
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Japan has the seventh highest incidence of reported parental abductions from the United States (currently 23 cases involving 34 children.) Typically, such cases involve a wife who wrongfully takes children to Japan in violation of a custody ruling. Since Japan is not a signatory to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International ...
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The son of the founder of the troubled Daiei big box stores and former owner of the Daiei Hawks pro baseball team (now the Softbank Hawks), Tadashi Nakauchi, age 50, was arrested this week for failing to declare about 500 million yen (roughly $5.5 million) given to him by his father before his death. See ...
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From January 2010, the Japan Organ Transplant Law has been revised, with somewhat mixed effect, to permit donors to give priority to their relatives in receiving donated organs. The new law also abolishes the prior minimum age of 15 for donors, so organs from children may now be used. Also, while the prior law requires ...
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The legal guardianship system in Japan for adults troubled with extreme old age, dementia or handicaps in now in its tenth year, but there still seems to be an imperfect understanding of the role that guardians should play; that is, to safeguard the interests and assets of the persons receiving care. In many cases, ...
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Merger negotiations between Kirin and the smaller, family-owned Suntory, Japan competitors in the beer and beverage business, have broken off, apparently permanently.
The parties ultimately disagreed on the share ratio and the extent of the role that the ...
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In view of increasing dual-nationality marriages and the high statistics ...
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As I predicted only a few days ago, a Japan family-controlled company has prevailed in its demands for a key control position in a merger with a much larger firm. Suntory Holdings and ...
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