The World - News from Sept. 30, 1987
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Emperor Hirohito, who underwent surgery last week to relieve an intestinal obstruction, does not have cancer, his physicians announced. Tests performed at Tokyo University showed that the 86-year-old Japanese emperor is suffering from chronic pancreatitis, but a biopsy found “no cancer cells,” Dr. Akira Takagi told a press conference.
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