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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
Ryuuichi Sakamoto
坂本龍一
ComposerMusicianNakano, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Website | Twitter Ryuuichi Sakamoto was an Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo, Japan. He played the keyboards in the influential electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow" is the first number-one instrumental single in the Japan's Oricon charts history. He was ranked at number 59 in a list of the top 100 most influential musicians compiled by HMV. Sakamoto had been married twice. His first marriage took place in 1972 but ended in divorce two years later. Sa…
