The musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has died aged 71 of cancer, spent his life as a restless traveller, personally and musically. “I was born in Japan but I don’t think I’m Japanese,” he said in 1988, ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, an eclectic Japanese composer who was an early leader in electronic pop music and became an acclaimed writer of film scores that blended Eastern and Western cultural influences, has ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto has been an enormously respected artist for decades, starting with his work in the '70s and '80s as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra in his native Japan to his deeply affective, ...

Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has passed away at the age of 71. Sakamoto’s management team confirmed his death in a statement published on social media. He died on Tuesday, 28th March. He’d been ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a trailblazing composer and producer who was one of the first musicians to incorporate electronic production into popular songcraft, has died at the age of 71. Sakamoto died on March ...

From pop music to film scores, electronica to experimental, Ryuichi Sakamoto was one of the most prolific, accomplished and influential artists of the last 50 years. Yet his death in March 2023 only ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a world-renowned Japanese musician and actor who composed for Hollywood hits such as The Last Emperor and The Revenant, has died. He was 71. Japan’s recording company Avex said in a ...

Pioneering Japanese composer, producer, and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was among the first to bring electronic production into popular music consciousness, has died at 71. "He lived with music ...

Sakamoto starred in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence alongside David Bowie in 1983 The Japanese composer behind 1987's The Last Emperor, Ryuichi Sakamoto, has died. Sakamoto's management team announced ...

Latterly, though, his work has been quite extraordinarily subdued and experimental – collaborations with far-leftfield glitch, electronica and ambient luminaries like Christian Fennesz, Carsten ...

The Japanese pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died in March after, in his words, “living alongside cancer” for several years. Two months before he passed away he released an album called 12, his ...

Music and noise, art and politics, sound and vision: Composer, musician, occasional actor and environmental activist Ryuichi Sakamoto says we’re living in a world in dire need of reconciliation.