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The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation' — a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
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Composer
Ichiko Hashimoto
橋本一子
ComposerActive 1980–presentKobe, Hyōgo Prefecture Japan
Website | Twitter Ichiko Hashimoto is a Japanese composer, singer and lyricist and jazz pianist. She has also acted in television and film. Hashimoto was born in Kobe, grew up in Tokyo and started playing the piano at the age of five. She attended Musashino Academia Musicae, where she graduated in 1975. Ichiko sometimes performs with her sister Mayumi Hashimoto.
