SENDAI--World-renowned musician Ryuichi Sakamoto felt an irresistible pull to a damaged piano at a school building in the northeastern prefecture of Miyagi. The building was rendered unusable by ...

So the solo concert, entitled Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022, had been created across a few days out of pre-recorded segments that were then assembled and streamed around the world.

Sakamoto, 70, played two pieces on piano, “Nagasaki: Memories of My Son” and “Still Life,” with the Tohoku Youth Orchestra where he serves as musical director. The orchestra is comprised ...

Opus, recorded on solo piano and captured on film by Sakamoto's son Neo Sora, traverses the composer's entire catalog, from his YMO days to his renowned scores for films like Merry Christmas ...

The late musical colossus’s first comprehensive exhibition in the nation makes you feel like his spirit is in the room, sitting at the piano.

Sakamoto, co-founder of the Yellow Magic Orchestra electronic music band and Oscar-winning composer for the 1987 film “The Last Emperor,” died on March 28. He was 71.

Artist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto – once described as the “godfather of electronic pop” – appears, seated at a grand piano, dressed in black, with his trademark mop of silver hair and ...

Yoshinaga also read poems written by people in Fukushima Prefecture with a piano obbligato by Sakamoto. About 200 people listened to the performance. Sakamoto said he thought about the faces of ...