“Living record” of an editor who got cancer in his 40s | NHK. Casual daily life made me ask myself the "meaning of life" Rintaro Okada passed away on July 3rd last year (age 45).

I started interviewing Mr. Okada in late October. He was actively writing books even though he was suffering from terminal cancer. His first and last book, ``Remembering,'' begins in the early days of his independence, when he was anxious but full of passion and excitement.