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Hachune Miku goes to Tottori

YONAGO, Japan - A 2-meter-tall papier-mache version of Hachune Miku (R), a popular ''vocaloid'' character with origins in a voice synthesizer software product, is transported to Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2010, to promote local leeks as she typically waves leeks held in her hand. On the left are Yonago City's leek character Yonegizu.

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Concert dedicated to Ehime Maru victims held at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Naoki Nishimura, a 51-year-old Japanese composer, plays a work on his synthesizer at the United Nations headquarters in New York on May 31 to commemorate the nine people lost at sea in the collision between a U.S. nuclear submarine and a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii on Feb. 9.

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Kitaro delighted with Grammy Award after 7 nominations

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese composer and synthesizer player Kitaro is all smiles at a press conference in Tokyo on March 12, having become the first Japanese artist in 12 years to win a Grammy Award on Feb. 21 for his album ''Thinking of You.''

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Composer, electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita dies at 84

Photo taken in November 2012 shows Isao Tomita, a composer, electronic music pioneer and synthesizer artist. Tomita died May 5, 2016, of chronic heart failure at a Tokyo hospital, aged 84. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hachune Miku goes to Tottori

YONAGO, Japan - A 2-meter-tall papier-mache version of Hachune Miku (R), a popular ''vocaloid'' character with origins in a voice synthesizer software product, is transported to Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2010, to promote local leeks as she typically waves leeks held in her hand. On the left are Yonago City's leek character Yonegizu. (Kyodo)

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Kitaro donates Grammy Award trophy to hometown

Japanese synthesizer player Kitaro (L) and Toyohashi Mayor Koichi Sahara pose for a photo at the city hall in central Japan on June 22, 2020, after Kitaro donated his Grammy Award trophy for Best New Age Album he won in 2001 to his hometown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kitaro donates Grammy Award trophy to hometown

Japanese synthesizer player Kitaro speaks in front of his Grammy Award trophy for Best New Age Album he won in 2001 at the Toyohashi city hall in central Japan on June 22, 2020, after donating it to his hometown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disabled lawmaker at Japan parliament session

Yasuhiko Funago, a Japanese lawmaker with severe motor neuron disease ALS, asks a question during a House of Councillors committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2019, using a computer-linked speech synthesizer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disabled lawmaker at Japan parliament session

Yasuhiko Funago, a Japanese lawmaker with severe motor neuron disease ALS, asks a questions during a House of Councillors committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2019, using a computer-linked speech synthesizer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disabled lawmaker at Japan parliament session

Yasuhiko Funago, a Japanese lawmaker with severe motor neuron disease ALS, asks a question during a House of Councillors committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2019, using a computer-linked speech synthesizer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Concert dedicated to Ehime Maru victims held at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Naoki Nishimura, a 51-year-old Japanese composer, plays a work on his synthesizer at the United Nations headquarters in New York on May 31 to commemorate the nine people lost at sea in the collision between a U.S. nuclear submarine and a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii on Feb. 9.

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Kitaro delighted with Grammy Award after 7 nominations

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese composer and synthesizer player Kitaro is all smiles at a press conference in Tokyo on March 12, having become the first Japanese artist in 12 years to win a Grammy Award on Feb. 21 for his album ''Thinking of You.''