Fans bid farewell to rock singer Imawano

TOKYO, Japan - An estimated 35,000 people form a long line that stretched over 2 kilometers outside a memorial hall in Tokyo, where a funeral service for Japanese rock singer Kiyoshiro Imawano, who died of a lymphatic disease a week ago at age 58, was held May 9.

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