Koji Asano, a Melbourne-based Japanese voice actor and musician, hosts music segment called J-Pop Hub for SBS Japanese. This week, he picked 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence' by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has died on the 28th of March, 2023. He was 71.
In 1988, Mr Sakamoto won an Academy Award for his music from 'The Last Emperor'. That was the first time for a Japanese composer to win the award.
Mr Sakamoto announced in 2020 that he had rectal cancer and he has been undergoing treatment since.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/mYLMEN6HrZ">pic.twitter.com/mYLMEN6HrZ</a></p>— ryuichi sakamoto (@ryuichisakamoto) <a href="
">April 2, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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