Hundreds of well-off Japanese and other nationals are turning to China"s burgeoning human organ transplant industry, paying tens of thousands of pounds for livers and kidneys, which in some cases have been
harvested from executed prisoners and sold to hospitals. When Kenichiro Hokamura"s kidneys failed, he faced a choice: wait for a transplant or go online to check out rumours of organs for sale. As a native of Japan, where just 40 human organs for transplant have been donated since 1997, the businessman, 62, says it was no contest. "There are 100 people waiting in this prefecture alone. I would have died before getting a donor." Still, he was astonished by just how easy it was.
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