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TETSUYA KOMURO

Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jan 29, 2018
Let's discuss Tetsuya Komuro's retirement
Music producer Tetsuya Komuro says he will retire from the industry following a recent magazine report about his alleged extramarital affair with a nurse.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 27, 2018
Shukan Bunshun shoots itself in the foot with Komuro scandal
Another month, another celebrity controversy in Japan. This time, however, the commotion over J-pop producer Tetsuya Komuro’s alleged affair and subsequent retirement might mark the moment that netizens rejected the country’s obsession with scandals. It also allowed those who might fall under the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 19, 2018
Famed producer Tetsuya Komuro quits music industry over alleged affair
Music producer Tetsuya Komuro said Friday he will retire from the industry following a recent magazine report about his alleged extramarital affair with a nurse.
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Jan 29, 2017
Happier times in the era of Tetsuya Komuro
A 58-year-old Japanese man with a dyed blond mullet in a thick, woolly sweater hunches over a series of a dozen keyboards. With a casual confidence his fingers trip through a few bright, up-tempo chords. There's something familiar about the sound — a nostalgia tinged with just a hint of guilty pleasure....
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 19, 2016
Is Japanese pop music losing its relevance?
Shukan Bunshun recently ran some articles describing how last year the talent management company LDH allegedly paid entertainment behemoth Burning Productions to ensure that one of LDH's acts would win the top prize at the 2015 Japan Record Awards (JRA). Accompanying one of the articles was a photo of...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 24, 2014
Review: TM Network at Tokyo International Forum
Just as the year drew to a close, so too did J-pop trio TM Network's touring schedule at the Tokyo International Forum's Hall A.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 29, 2014
Review: TM Network at Fuchu no Mori Art Theater
The fanks were out in full force on Saturday as J-pop trio TM Network launched its "the beginning of the end" tour.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 19, 2011
Tetsuya Komuro's 'Digitalian is Eating Breakfast 2'
Emerging from the tail end of the 1980s new-wave scene with the band TM Network, Tetsuya Komuro was a producer who defined the 1990s. In fact, anyone searching out a single point when the more modern agglomeration of styles that later became known as J-pop killed off the older kayoukyoku (an older term...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 18, 2009
The noughties played it nice
The biggest Japanese music event in 2000 was Hikaru Utada's Bohemian Summer tour, which was launched at Tokyo's Yoyogi Pool that June. Since emerging in December 1998 with the single "Automatic," followed by the debut album "First Love" four months later, the 17-year-old singer-songwriter, daughter of...
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 12, 2009
Music producer Tetsuya Komuro gets suspended sentence
OSAKA (Kyodo) The Osaka District Court on Monday sentenced pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro to a suspended three-year prison term for swindling an investor out of ¥500 million in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2009
Five years in prison sought for Tetsuya Komuro
OSAKA (Kyodo) Prosecutors demanded a five-year prison term Thursday for pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro, who has pleaded guilty to swindling an investor out of ¥500 million in 2006 and repaid the sum plus arrears since the trial began earlier this year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 22, 2009
Tetsuya Komuro admits ¥500 million fraud, vows to repay victim
OSAKA (Kyodo) Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro pleaded guilty Wednesday in court to concluding a contract to sell music copyrights he did not own and swindling an investor out of ¥500 million.
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2008
Tetsuya Komuro charged with fraud, bailed
Prosecutors on Friday charged once high-flying pop music producer and singer Tetsuya Komuro with orchestrating a ¥500 million fraud over copyrights of songs he no longer owned.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2008
Tetsuya Komuro arrested over contract fraud
OSAKA — Osaka prosecutors arrested well-known music producer Tetsuya Komuro on Tuesday for allegedly defrauding an investor out of ¥500 million by signing a contract to sell the copyrights to music he mostly wrote but didn't own.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2003
Tetsuya Komuro to work with green group
Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro will work with a Seoul-based environment conservation group tackling yellow sand, acid rain and other problems in Northeast Asia, sources close to the group said Saturday.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2001
Producer Tetsuya Komuro to marry singer
Tetsuya Komuro, a popular musician and producer of a number of gold disks, will soon marry a vocalist in his group "Kiss Destination," sources close to the musician said Wednesday.
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The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
China’s economic growth comes in worse than expected
Pedestrians in the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing on July 11, 2024. China's economic growth in the second quarter was lower than forecast, adding pressure on Chinese leaders to lift confidence at the Chinese Communist Party's third plenum this week.
Kansai airports to increase takeoff and landing slots ahead of Osaka Expo
Kansai International Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture. The upper limit on the number of takeoff and landing slots at the airport as well as Kobe Airport in Hyogo Prefecture will be raised in spring next year ahead of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
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She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
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