Abstract
In this article, author summarizes the experience as a visiting scholar in Fukushima Medical University. The current status and technical innovations of living related liver transplantation in Japan are comprehensively evaluated. New approaches for islet transplantation in the laboratory of Prof. Gotoh and author's preliminary experience of the experimental islet xenotransplantation are also succinctly reported. In the meantime, the author emphasizes the importance of an “open” department and library in which there is a great difference by comparison with that in China.
I had an opportunity to study as a visiting scholar in Fukushima Medical University from July 6th to Sept. 28th, 2000. Here, I summarize what I saw and learnt, which have left a deep impression on my memory in Fukushima.
