Multiple sources, including Kenya’s embassy in Tokyo, confirmed that Wanjiku’s body leaves Tokyo on Tuesday, May, 2, and will arrive in Kenya two days later on Thursday, May 4
Wanjiku, 20, a professional runner with the Hitachi Building Company, was based in Chiba Prefecture and died on April 14, reportedly from cancer
In a statement issued while announcing the athlete’s demise, Hitachi Building Company’s athletics head coach and former Japanese track international Satoru Kitamura described Wanjiku, who dominated her high school running days in Japan, as “kind and considerate”
The body of a Kenyan athlete who died in Japan earlier this month arrives back home next week, it has been confirmed.
This is contrary to reports that the body of distance runner Cynthia Wanjiku Mbaire had been detained in a Japanese hospital over Sh1.3 million in unpaid medical bills.
