A Record That Shocked All of Japan: The Century's Landmark Professor Juro Wada and his team, who bravely took up the scalpel Nobuo Miyazaki, who agreed to the surgery, and his parents' determination and anxiety The Yamaguchi family, who offered their son's heart to the new medicine Progressing smoothly under the watchful eyes of 100 million citizens The Hokkaido Times reporting team covers everything from the historic surgery on August 8, 1968, to the present day.