A Japanese Man From Miyagi Prefecture in Northern Japan Who Requested His Name not Be Disclosed Writes Kanji During a Rehabilitation Session with His Reattached Fingers Friday 23 April 2004 Yamagata University Hospital Announced Tuesday of This Week They Successfully Reattached a Record Seven Fingers Severed From the 27 Year Old Man the Previous Record of Reattaching Fingers to a Patient Was Five the Patient Lost All His Fingers Except His Thumbs in February When He Caught His Hands in a Press Surgery Took 15 Hours to Complete with 11 Doctors Setting Up 4 Teams to Take Care of Two Fingers Each