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Between 1991–1993, the Japanese government and various professional associations took action on three major issues: (1) several attempts were made to legislate organ transplants from donors declared dead according to brain-death criteria; (2) outcome data were released on various human reproductive technologies including microinsemination and embryo transfer, multiple pregnancies and selective reduction of fetuses, surrogate motherhood, preimplantation genetic diagnosis and human cloning; and (3) the government approved limited use of human gene therapy and discussed a number of ethical issues that it raises.
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Hoshino, K. (1995). Bioethics in Japan: 1991–1993. In: Lustig, B.A. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0197-4_15
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