Rina Aiuchi to Retire

Popular and successful 30 year-old Japanese pop vocalist Rina Aiuchi has unexpectedly announced plans to retire from the entertainment business, partially for health reasons. Aiuchi will give her final concert performance Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture on September 26. Aiuchi made her professional singing debut in 2000. Five of her seven albums have broken into the Oricon top ten with two reaching number one. Her eight and final album, Last Scene will be released on September 15. Aiuchi has performed five theme songs for the Detective Conan anime franchise, along with theme songs for the Fighting Beauty Wulong, MÄR, Monster Rancher, Souten no Ken, and Tsuri Baka Nisshi anime TV series.

Source: Tokyograph