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ayaka To Go On Limited Tour To Continue Raising Newborn Child

ayaka has announced that her upcoming tour will be limited in scale so she can focus on raising her new child.

ayaka will be going on tour starting on November 23, 2015 and ending on February 27, 2016. The tour is titled "Rainbow Road TOUR 2015-2016 ~Michi wa Tsuzuku yo~" and will promote her latest album "Rainbow Road".

The upcoming tour will only have 6 stops during its 3 month run. ayaka explained in a blog post that she decided to have a limited tour in order to continue raising her new baby while also allowing her fans to see her in concert.

"After considering lots of things, because its still an unstable period for a child, everyone on staff decided not to go anywhere that we'd have to fly to due to the difficulties we'd face," she wrote.

While her upcoming tour will be small in scale, ayaka promised that next year's tour celebrating her 10 year anniversary will be much larger. "The baby will be grown by then, and we'll have lots to look forward to," she wrote.

Netizens responded positively to ayaka's decision. Most comments on her blog praised the singer for putting the needs of her child first.

ayaka announced on June 19 that she had given birth to her first child, a baby girl, with her husband Mizushima Hiro. The singer has expressed her joy from having a child on her blog.

http://www.jpopasia.com/news/ayaka-t...ld::18139.html