An 18-year-old boy from Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, who had called for hospital schooling for sick high school students and helped establish a teacher dispatch system, passed away last month.
Knowing that he did not have long to live, Yoshiki Ito had struggled to achieve his goal.
Ito had been hospitalized in Nagoya University Hospital's pediatrics department after being diagnosed with cancer in his left kidney when he was a second-year junior high school student.