List of Japanese composers
This is a list of Japanese composers, ordered by birth date.
Shōka, Lied, children's song
- Isawa Shūji
- Sakunosuke Koyama
- Teiichi Okano
- Rentarō Taki
- Tadashi Yanada
- Nagayo Motoori
- Kōsaku Yamada
- Shinpei Nakayama
- Ryūtarō Hirota
- Tamezō Narita
- Kan'ichi Shimofusa
- Yūji Koseki
- Yoshinao Nakada
Classical and contemporary
Others
- Yatsuhashi Kengyo
- Hiromori Hayashi
- Nakao Tozan
- Koga Masao
- Masaru Sato
- Shunsuke Kikuchi, 20th–21st-century music producer and BGM composer
- Koichi Sugiyama
- Isao Tomita
- Takeo Watanabe
- Yasuo Kuwahara
- Joe Hisaishi, 20th–21st century film composer
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Yoko Noge
- Shirō Sagisu
- Yoichiro Yoshikawa, 20th–21st century music producer and composer
- Jun Miyake
- Nobuo Uematsu, 20th–21st century musician and video game composer
- Akira Senju
- Koji Kondo, 20th–21st century video game composer
- Michiru Oshima, 20th–21st century film, television and video game composer
- Michiru Yamane, 20th–21st century video game composer
- Hikari Ōe
- Shinkichi Mitsumune
- Yoko Kanno, 20th–21st century music producer and composer
- Yuki Kajiura, 20th–21st century music producer and composer
- Taro Iwashiro
- Yoko Shimomura, 20th–21st century music pianist and video game composer
- Yasunori Mitsuda
- Hiroyuki Sawano, 20th–21st century animation, film, television and video game composer