is a Japanese agricultural scientist, composer, and record producer. He is also known by his pseudonym, .Library of Congress authority file
Ōhashi Tsutomu n81-115367
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Early life

Born in

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, he attended

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and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. He received a Doctorate of Agriculture.

Career

He held positions such as Instructor at Tsukuba University, Professor at the National Institute of Multimedia Education, Professor at Chiba Institute of Technology, and General manager at the Department of KANSEI Brain Science, ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories. While he is a

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 def ...

, conductor, and producer, as a scientist he has interests including environmental science, information science, Kansei engineering,

production engineering Manufacturing engineering or production engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, and industrial engineering. Manufac ...

molecular biology Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...

artificial life Artificial life (ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. The discipline ...

, and

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

. In 1974, he founded the Geinoh Yamashirogumi, which is a Japanese musical collective consisting of hundreds of different people, among them journalists, doctors, engineers, students, businessmen, etc. He is also known for composing and conducting the score for the renowned 1988

anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...

film '' Akira'' under his pseudonym, Shoji Yamashiro. He is the President of the Yamashiro Institute of Science and Culture and the Director and chief researcher of the Foundation for the Advancement of International Science.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Tsutomu Ōhashi,

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encompasses roughly 10+ works in 10+ publications in 5 language and 400+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities山城祥二
/ref> * 群れ創り学 (1981) * 「仮面考」シンポジウム (1982) * 情緖ロボットの世界 (1985) * '' Symphonic Suite Akira'' (1988) * 情報環境学 (1989) * ピグミ－の脳, 西洋人の脳 : 夢舞亭対話 (1992) * 音と文明 : 音の環境学ことはじめ (2003)

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External links

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi's website
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