“…Nevertheless, recent activity within Asia is supporting the development of this field. Many Asian countries, such as China, Japan, and South Korea, are now conducting extensive studies on this subject (Chen et al, 2003;Guo et al, 2014;Shuji et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2019a;Girani et al, 2019;Kobayashi and Miyagawa, 2019;Pan et al, 2019;Park et al, 2019;Shimoda and Matsumoto, 2019;Kwon et al, 2020a;Kwon et al, 2020b;Liu et al, 2020;Liu and Liu, 2021;Sung et al, 2021;Huang and Foundation, 2022). Sociocultural factors are correlated to significantly lower organ donation rates in this region compared to Western countries.…”