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There is a chronic shortage of blood products in Japan, and it is a common sight to see a group of people on the street appealing for blood donations.
The idea of donating blood is not very well entrenched in Japan. It suffers, too, from the scandal that exploded in the 1980s centering on HIV-tainted blood caused by the non-use of heat-treated blood products.
This is a recording, on Tokyo's busy Shinjuku-dori Street, of a particularly solicitous young man beseeching people to donate blood in a voice that no amount of traffic noise can drown out.
November 18, 2007.
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Sounds of the real Japan
