Ichikawa Ebizo already sets sights beyond Olympics in promoting Kabuki

Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo said Wednesday the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will be an opportunity to try and capture the hearts of international audiences, but that is just one part of his lifelong endeavor to spread the Japanese theater art.In a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Ebizo, the son and successor of the late Ichikawa Danjuro XII, said he is already exploring ways to maintain the Olympic legacy and keep kabuki fans from turning away after the Games."In 2020, the year of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, we will see an influx of foreig…READ FULL ARTICLE