[sumo] News on Tokitsukaze beya

[Doreen Simmons]

On 2007/07/04, at 0:36, Barbara wrote:

> It's hard to tell.  It depends on who gave the initial cause of death.
> If it was the hospital, we have to treat cardiac ischemia as a
> possibility, but not the only possibility.  Nothing will be known for
> sure until the results of a proper autopsy are revealed.  I don't know
> how things are done in Japan but I have the feeling that the family is
> going to be in charge of whether those results are announced.

The hospital gave the initial cause of death, as it has to, and the CT 
scan etc was conducted within 24 hours, at the request of the family -- 
or so it was reported in the Japanese media.

One thing to be careful of is the English translations;  these are 
usually done by inhouse translators employed by the newspaper or agency 
concerned on a "best that we can manage in a hurry" basis -- moreover,  
dictionary definitions are not necessarily one-to-one equivalents. I'm 
not saying this is the case here -- but the medical experts on this 
list would know more about these conditions than the person who did the 
translating.


Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp