Ghostwriter for well-known Japanese composer

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Niigaki (L), a music lecturer, holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 6, 2014, the day after confessing that he has worked as a ghostwriter for Mamoru Samuragochi, a well-known Japanese composer, for nearly 20 years. At the press conference, Niigaki cast doubt over the composer's claim that he cannot hear.

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