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Ryoichi Hattori was born in 1901.
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Ryoichi Hattori
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Career
Belonged to Columbia Record Company (1935) and composed for not only Columbia but also Victor Record Company. Besides composing - more than 2,000 popular songs including Wakare No Blues and Ginza Kan Kan Musume; also composed for symphonic orchestra "Saxophone Concerto", "Dialogue of Water and Smoke", "Sightseeing of Americans in Tokyo", etc.
He composed many songs for various artists such as Noriko Awaya, Shizuko Kasagi, Ichimaru and Ichirō Fujiyama. He also composed Li Xianglan's song "Suzhou Nocturne", which created an embarrassing controversy over half a century though it was not a militaristic song.
