1. Ad-hoc Committee on Brain Death and Organ Transplantation (1991) Interim report (Important issues related to Brain Death and Organ Transplantation). Ad-hoc Committee on Brain Death and Organ Transplantation, Tokyo
2. Akabayashi A (2003) Report of the project “Strategies for Social Consensus Building on the Policies concerning Advanced Medical Technologies.” Fuji Research Institute Corporation, Tokyo
3. Akabayashi A, Slingby BT, Kai I (2003) Perspectives on advance directives in Japanese society: a population-based questionnaire survey. BMC Med Ethics 4:5
4. Brannigan MC (1992) A chronicle of organ transplant progress in Japan. Transpl Int 5:180–186
5. Brunner RD, Lasswell HD, Lipset SM (1995) The Encyclopedia of Democracy, Volume 3. Congressional Quarterly Press, Washington, DC, pp 723–725