{"id":18514,"date":"2009-10-19T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=18514"},"modified":"2009-10-19T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T20:57:23","slug":"composer-kazuhiko-katoh-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/composer-kazuhiko-katoh-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Composer Kazuhiko Katoh Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Kazuhiko_Katoh_2006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Kazuhiko_Katoh_2006.jpg\" alt=\"Musician Kazuhiko Kato found hanged at Karuizawa hotel\" title=\"Musician Kazuhiko Kato found hanged at Karuizawa hotel\" width=\"142\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musician Kazuhiko Katoh, best known to anime fans as the composer of the songs &#8220;Ai, Oboeteimasu ka?&#8221; (Love, Do Your Remember?) and &#8220;Yakusoku&#8221; (Promise) &#8211; the theme songs for the 1984 Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Windaria anime motion pictures &#8211; was found hanged in his hotel room in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture on Saturday. Investigators reportedly also found a suicide note. Katoh was 62.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.kyodo.co.jp\/modules\/fstStory\/index.php?storyid=465626\" target=\"_blank\">Kyodo News<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/home.kyodo.co.jp\/modules\/fstStory\/index.php?storyid=465626\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Kazuhiko Katoh, best known to anime fans as the composer of the songs &#8220;Ai, Oboeteimasu ka?&#8221; (Love, Do Your Remember?) and &#8220;Yakusoku&#8221; (Promise) &#8211; the theme songs for the 1984 Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Windaria anime motion pictures &#8211; was found hanged in his hotel room in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture on Saturday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18516,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions\/18516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}