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1) Toshio Masuda (増田俊郎, Masuda Toshio, born October 28, 1959 in Tokyo) is a Japanese synthesizer player, composer and music director. He has composed and synthesised scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series. His works include music for Flint, The Time Detective (1998), Jubei-chan (1999), Now and Then, Here and There (1999), Excel Saga (1999), Daa! Daa! Daa! (2000), Hand Maid May (2000), Puni Puni Poemy (2001), Mahoromatic (2001), Naruto (2002-2007), Ai Yori Aoshi (2002), Ai Yori Aoshi: Enishi (2003), Jubei-chan 2 (2004), Mushishi (2005), Ghost Hunt (2006), Higepiyo (2009), Kamisama Hajimemashita (2012). 2) Toshiro Masuda (増田俊郎, same...

Junichi Masuda (増田 順一 Masuda Junichi, born January 12, 1968) is a video game composer, director, designer, producer, and programmer best known for his work on the Pokémon franchise. He is a member of the Game Freak board of directors, and has worked at the company since 1989. He helped compose the music for games like Mendel Palace and Smart Ball before beginning to work on the first Pokémon games. On Pokémon Red and Green he worked mainly as the soundtrack and sound effects composer, as well as contributing some of the programming. With the development of new Pokémon games,...

Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛敏郎, 20 February 1929, in Yokohama – 10 April 1997, in Kawasaki) was a Japanese composer of classical music, soundtracks, and traditional Japanese music. Mayuzumi was a student at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music immediately following the Second World War, before going to Europe where he attended the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. He was initially enthusiastic about avant-garde Western music but in the course of the 1950s he gradually became more interested in traditional Japanese music as well as esoteric Buddhism. Like the novelist Mishima Yukio, whose novel "The Temple of the...