102:- Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik - and performed his "Piano Piece I" (Op.28) in Basel. In April 1986, he returned to Switzerland where he composed and performed his "Piano Piece III" (Op.36) in Arlesheim near Basel. Also he travelled to Spain and Denmark and wrote an essay for a music journal. "Composition II" (Op.11) and "Composition" III (Op.13) were broadcast by a Spanish radio station.
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He died just 9 days after his 29th birthday by acute cardiac failure on
January 29, 1987, in Tokyo. He left 38 works in his short life of 29 years. All his scores and some music tapes are preserved in the
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also embodied traditional
Japanese concepts: hence he was able to compose with equal readiness for chamber group, synths, symphony orchestra or traditional instruments...."
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in 1982. In the same year, he organised the Tokyo Shin-Wagaku
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and the subject of "death". On the other hand, he was quite a sportsman who loved skiing. He had the 1st grade of
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