Ex-pro baseball player encourages leukemia patients

GIFU, Japan - Former Japanese professional baseball player Yasuaki Taiho, who is suffering from acute myelocytic leukemia but continues to manage a Chinese restaurant in Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, says in July 2014 that he wants to give hope to other patients fighting the disease.

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