So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future..

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life..

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list fo….

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se..

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were playe….

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music..

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant..

And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that i….

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americ….

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the….

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years..

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move th….

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improve….

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, l….

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have….

Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan..

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the ….

I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a B….

However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seei….

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era..

Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable..