U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday to acknowledge and apologize for the sexual slavery committed by Japan during World War II, reports Yonhap News Agency.
When asked about her thoughts on Abe’s upcoming congressional speech in Washington, Pelosi told reporters, “We have been clear about what we’d like to hear about comfort women. I hope that a statement will be made to free [Japanese] people from this burden of the issue of comfort women.”
Pelosi met with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se on Thursday and discussed issues regarding North Korea as well as the relationship between South Korea and Japan. She also met with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who expressed the urgency of the “comfort women” issue as the victims are in their late 80s, according to Park’s office.
Although Pelosi said it is not necessary for Abe to apologize before Congress, she expressed hope that the prime minister “apologizes in some format.”
“I would imagine if the prime minister is going to make a statement, he [would] probably do that in his own country rather than somebody else’s country,” Pelosi said, according to Yonhap.
In an organ transplant surgery, timing is critical. Doctors drop organs into a plastic bag and put them on ice. But lungs soon stop breathing. Hearts stop beating. The organs essentially shut down and start to deteriorate. This means doctors have only about five to 10 hours to get the lung from the donor into the recipient. If the travel time is too long, the organ can’t be used and goes to waste. An Andover company known as TransMedics came up with a system known as the organ Care System. The portable device circulates blood through the lungs and pumps oxygen through the lobes. So the lungs can breathe outside the body. The device is currently not FDA approved but is undergoing clinical testing.(Source)
