Tokyo: The death of a former newsreader who won acclaim for blogging about her breast cancer fight hit the headlines in Japan, with the media and officials praising her courage.
Mao Kobayashi died on Thursday aged 34, her husband and popular kabuki actor, Ebizo Ichikawa, said on Friday at a nationally televised news conference attended by about 400 reporters.
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