Singer Kitajima to retire from stage play as troupe head

Singer Kitajima to retire from stage play as troupe head

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran "enka" Japanese ballad singer Saburo Kitajima poses at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on April 21, 2014, making a pitch for what will be his final series of stage performances as the leader of his theatrical company ending next January.

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