Abstract
The passing of the law concerning the transplanting of internal organs permits such transplants provided that brain death has occured. It is likely that most internal organs would be removed from the bodies of those killed in tranffic accidents. In such cases there would be an urgent need to perform an operation to keep organts fresh and vital and to transplant them to their recipients as soon as possible. An autosy, however, would cause marked deterioration leading to some serious problems turning on whether the needs of the autopsy should take precedence over the removal of organs from bodies. It might be the causes of death would not be firmly established. Therefore I have discussed these issued of the advance procedures for performing organ transplants, pointing out a few problems arising from the system of autopsy followed in Japan in comparison with the situation in the United States.
