Singer Kitajima performs 4,500 stages in 46 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Saburo Kitajima, a popular singer of "enka," often considered a form of Japanese blues, bows to the audience at the Meijiza theater in Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2014, after finishing his 4,500th show as leader of a theatrical company since September 1968.

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