Masao Koga
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Masao Koga was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's
Koga Masao conducting
Ryūkōka
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Ryūkōka is a Japanese musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the sinic reading of hayariuta, used for commercial music of Edo Period. Therefore, ima
Masao Koga
…mandolin from an older brother living in Osaka. He was regarded as a notable figure for establishing the genre enka, though Koga considered that he was a ryūkōka composer. He wrote numerous songs for Ichiro Fujiyama and Hibari Misora. Koga’s songs have been heard by Western audiences in various films, including…
People's Honour Award winning singer Ichiro Fujiyama
Hideko Takamine and Taro Shoji
Noriko Awaya, the "Queen of Blues" in Japan
The lyric sheet of "Patriotic March"