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composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

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and member of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). He graduated from the Department of Literature at

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and afterwards Nippon Columbia joined as music director. He currently works as a music producer, arranger and singer.http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E8%8D%92%E5%B7%9D%E6%95%8F%E8%A1%8C

Contributions

Arakawa has composed music for anime: * Crayon Shin-chan *

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He has composed music for all the 23 Crayon Shinchan movies (as of 2015).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arakawa, Toshiyuki 1953 births Chuo University alumni Japanese film score composers Japanese male film score composers Living people