本田美奈子 or "本田美奈子." (Honda Minako, July 31, 1967 - November 6, 2005) was a Japanese pop-star and musical singer active from 1985 to 2005. She got famous and popular as "Japan's Madonna" because of her sexy fashion and live performance in 1980s. In 2005, her blood type changed into A type from O type by a transplant of umbilical cord blood after the detection of her illness. She was diagnosed with myelocytic leukemia in January 2005.