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On Sunday, January 13, a 57-year-old Japanese singer named Anri will play a rare midwestern show for a sold-out crowd at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center. In the mid-80s, while Japan was enjoying the final years of its long postwar boom, Anri became one of the crucial voices of “City Pop”—a fizzy, euphoric form of electronic disco, that was imbued with the optimistic spirit of a New Ja