List of Japanese composers

This is a list of Japanese composers, ordered by birth date.

• Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614–1685)
• Hiromori Hayashi (1831–1896)
• Tokichi Setoguchi (1868–1941)
• Rentarō Taki (1879–1903), one of the best known composers of Japan
• Kosaku Yamada (1886–1965)
• Kiyoshi Nobutoki（1887–1965）
• Yasuji Kiyose (1900–1981)
• Saburō Moroi (1903–1977)
• Kunihiko Hashimoto (1904–1949)
• Tomojirō Ikenouchi (1906–1991)
• Yoritsune Matsudaira (1907–2001)
• Hisato Ohzawa (1907–1953)
• Shirō Fukai (1907–1959)
• Akira Ifukube (1914–2006)
• Fumio Hayasaka (1914–1955)
• Yoshirō Irino (1921–1980)
• Kan Ishii (1921–2009), 20th-century classical composer
• Sadao Bekku (1922–2012)
• Ikuma Dan (1924–2001)
• Yasushi Akutagawa (1925–1989)
• Roh Ogura (1926–1990)
• Joji Yuasa (born 1929)
• Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997)
• Akio Yashiro (1929–1976)
• Teizo Matsumura (1929–2007)
• Toru Takemitsu (1930–1996), 20th-century contemporary composer
• Makoto Moroi (1930-2013), son of Saburo Moroi
• Hikaru Hayashi (1931–2012)
• Shunsuke Kikuchi (born 1931), 20th-21st century music producer and BGM composer
• Yuzo Toyama (born 1931)
• Akira Miyoshi (born 1933)
• Toshi Ichiyanagi (born 1933)
• Maki Ishii (1936–2003)
• Shigeaki Saegusa (born 1942)
• Shin-ichiro Ikebe (born 1943)
• Yasuo Kuwahara (1946–2003)
• Joe Hisaishi (born 1950), 20th-21st century film composer
• Takashi Yoshimatsu (born 1953)
• Akira Nishimura (born 1953)
• Toshio Hosokawa (born 1955)
• Shirō Sagisu (born 1957)
• Yoichiro Yoshikawa (born 1957), 20th-21st century music producer and composer
• Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959), 20th-21st century musician and video game composer
• Koji Kondo (born 1961), 20th-21st century video game composer
• Yoko Kanno (born 1964), 20th-21st century music producer and composer^[1]
• Yuki Kajiura (born 1965), 20th-21st century music producer and composer
• Yasunori Mitsuda (born 1972)

See also

• Japan Composer's Association

References

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