Music school teacher behind "deaf" Onimusha composer revealed

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The mystery composer behind "Japan's Beethoven" has been revealed.
Today, during a press conference attended by ABC, part-time music school teacher Takashi Niigaki said that for the last 18 years he had written music for the celebrated 50-year-old composer Mamoru Samuragochi, who claimed to have lost his hearing completely at the age of 35.
Samuragochi yesterday admitted he had paid someone to write the music he had claimed to be his own, including the soundtrack to one of the Resident Evil: Director's Cut versions and the first Onimusha game.
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