Nobuaki Kobayashi is a phenomenally kind and dedicated man. Life has never been easy, however. Now his wife is chronically unwell and he too is feeling his age.
Not that you would ever hear this from his own lips. But the word is out.
Kobayashi is executive director of the NPO he founded in 1998: The Supporting Network for the Chronically Sick Children of Japan.
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