10 Notable alumni of
Tokyo College of Music
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The Tokyo College of Music is 708th in the world, 147th in Asia, and 56th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from the Tokyo College of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
- Years
- 1933-.. (age 91)
- Occupations
- writerseiyūactortarentoautobiographer
- Biography
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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is a Japanese actress, television personality, World Wide Fund for Nature advisor, and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She joined NHK Broadcasting Theatre Company as the first television actress in 1953. In 1954, she made her debut as the lead actress in the radio drama Yambō Nimbō Tombō. In 1976, the TV Asahi's Tetsuko's Room (Tetsuko no Heya)" started airing. This program was recognized by the Guinness World Records in 2011 for having the highest number of broadcasts by the same host. It has been airing on weekdays at noon every week, and as of 2023, it has surpassed 11,000 episodes in its 48th year. Her autobiographical book, Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, which depicts her childhood, became a post-WW2 bestseller with over 8 million copies sold in Japan and 25 million copies worldwide. It has also been adapted into a television series twice.
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Nao Matsushita
- Enrolled in the Tokyo College of Music
- Studied piano
- Occupations
- fashion modelmodelpianistsingeractor
- Biography
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Nao Matsushita is a Japanese actress and singer.
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Yui Makino
- Enrolled in the Tokyo College of Music
- In 2008 studied piano
- Occupations
- pianistsinger-songwriterseiyūactorsinger
- Biography
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Yui Makino is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer, and pianist. She is best known for her work in the anime Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle where she voices Sakura and some of the theme songs for the Aria anime series. She is associated with Amuse, Inc. One of her earliest voice acting performances was the character "Sister" in a short-anime movie Bavel no Hon when she was 10. She married singer Yutaro Miura in 2020.
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Noriko Awaya
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Noriko Awaya was a Japanese female soprano chanteuse and popular music (ryūkōka) singer. She was dubbed the "Queen of Blues" in Japan.
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Yugo Kanno
- Occupations
- music arrangerpaintercomposeraudio engineer
- Biography
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Yugo Kanno is a Japanese composer and musician known for his work on many television dramas, anime series, and movies.
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Hachiro Kasuga
- Occupations
- singercomposer
- Biography
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Hachiro Kasuga, born Minoru Watabe, was a Japanese enka singer. He has been dubbed "the first enka singer".
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Kamatari Fujiwara
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Kamatari Fujiwara was a Japanese stage and film actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1933 and 1984. In addition to regular appearances in the films of Akira Kurosawa, he worked for directors such as Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Heinosuke Gosho and others.
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Hirofumi Yoshida
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Hirofumi Yoshida is a Japanese orchestral conductor. He resides in Italy, but grew up in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan.
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Katharina Treutler
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Katharina Treutler is a German pianist.
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Kazumasa Hashimoto
- Occupations
- musiciancomposeraudio engineer
- Biography
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Kazumasa Hashimoto is a Japanese composer, mastering engineer and web designer.
