Minako Honda (本田美奈子) was a Japanese "idol" pop-star and musical singer.She became famous and popular because of her sexy fashion and live performances in the mid to late 1980s. She was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia on January 5, 2005.At 4:38 A.M. on November 6, 2005, Honda died at the Juntendo University Hospital in Bunkyō, Tokyo, officially from acute myelogenous leukemia.