Leaving aside the most famous exponents such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Joe Hisaishi, who had previously gained a certain popularity with very heterogeneous projects, names such as Yoshio Ojima, Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada, Masahiro Sugaya and Hiroshi Yoshimura have emerged from the darkness only recently, partly in a daring way, through the mysterious equations of the Youtube algorithm, triggered by the growing interest in the Japanese ambient genre, stimulated in turn by a handful of heroic explorers of the musical abysses (such as Chee Shimizu and Spencer Doran) and small indie record companies.
A whirlwind of events, chances, circumstances that allow us today to rediscover composers who, in a more globalized world as ours, could have already assumed in the past a much different role on the music scene.