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Summary
In the first section, Morioka argued that Japanese people hesitate to accept brain death as human death though it is common in the Western countries. He also said that some of the reasons may be distrust of doctors, Japanese culture or something.
In the second section, he talked about Japanese people's distrust of doctors mainly. In Japan, patients had not right to know about their disease, which means that doctors did not tell the fact. This is called "closed-door medicine". According to Morioka, this caused Japanese people's distrust of doctor. Now, this system is changing to catch up with European countries and the US.
In the third section, he explained the relationship between Japanese culture and brain death. He said that Japanese try to keep the dead body perfect to make the soul happy. This is why Japanese people do not want to transplant from brain dead body.

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I really agree with the idea that accepting brain death is one part of the modernization. I actually do not agree nor disagree with transplant from brain dead body. However, it may be true that many Japanese people disagree with that. What I want to say here is "why is Japanese society trying to be like Western society so mcuh?" Though modernization is necessary, holding our own culture is also necessary.
I doubt that Japanese people really want to keep dead body perfect. Morioka gave us example of one airplane accident. He should have mentioned the age of the victims' family members, and the number of the family members Namihira investigate. I think, it is a little bit too old fashioned. Morever, during WWⅡ, Japanese soldiers cut others' finger when they had no hope to go back home, and some of them carried the fingers to the family. Why did they do that? It means that they made the finger and the other parts of body separated. The body was no longer perfect! Thus, I donbt his explanation about brain death and Japanese culture. There was contraditction as I showed, and the author should have explained much more.