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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 media spotlight a chance to fight back.
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. His music sounded cheesy even back when it was cool. But admit it, you kind of miss it now ... this sound from a more optimistic time.
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 an invoice on Burning stationery showing that LDH owed it ¥108 million for "end-of-year business promotion expenses."
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 for mainstream Japanese pop) style, need look no further than the moment in 1989 when Komuro's "Gravity of Love" beat Seiko Matsuda, the last great kayoukyoku idol, to the No. 1 spot.
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 a folk singer mother and a musician-producer father, had become the most important individual to emerge on the Japanese pop scene since Tetsuya Komuro discovered Eurobeat in the 1980s, and it was her first extended tour. She played 18 shows in nine cities. Tickets sold out within hours, and three concerts were quickly added at the Chiba Marine Stadium. Tickets for those were gone in a half hour.
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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