A 17-year-old boy being treated for kidney cancer has appealed to the governor of Aichi Prefecture to set up a high school education program in his hospital.
Yoshiki Ito, a second-year design student at Aichi Prefectural Seto Pottery Senior High School, has been hospitalized for the past two years in Nagoya University Hospital's pediatrics department.
He received tuition in the hospital to help him pass his high school entrance exam, but has had nothing since.
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