List of Japanese composers

This is a list of Japanese composers, ordered by birth date.

Shōka, Lied, children's song

 * Isawa Shūji (1851–1917)
 * Sakunosuke Koyama (1864–1927)
 * Teiichi Okano (1878–1941)
 * Rentarō Taki (1879–1903)
 * Tadashi Yanada (1883–1959)
 * Nagayo Motoori (1885–1945)
 * Kōsaku Yamada (1886–1965)
 * Shinpei Nakayama (1887–1952)
 * Ryūtarō Hirota (1892–1952)
 * Tamezō Narita (1893–1945)
 * Kan'ichi Shimofusa (1898–1962)
 * Yūji Koseki (1909–1989)
 * Yoshinao Nakada (1923–2000)

Others

 * Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614–1685)
 * Hiromori Hayashi (1831–1896)
 * Nakao Tozan (1876–1956)
 * Koga Masao (1904–1978)
 * Masaru Sato (1928–1999)
 * Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931–2021), 20th–21st-century music producer and BGM composer
 * Koichi Sugiyama (1931–2021)
 * Isao Tomita (1932–2016)
 * Takeo Watanabe (1933–1989)
 * Yasuo Kuwahara (1946–2003)
 * Joe Hisaishi (born 1950), 20th–21st century film composer
 * Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023)
 * Shirō Sagisu (born 1957)
 * Yoichiro Yoshikawa (born 1957), 20th–21st century music producer and composer
 * Jun Miyake (born 1958)
 * Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959), 20th–21st century musician and video game composer
 * Akira Senju (born 1960)
 * Koji Kondo (born 1961), 20th–21st century video game composer
 * Michiru Oshima (born 1961), 20th–21st century film, television and video game composer
 * Michiru Yamane (born 1963), 20th–21st century video game composer
 * Hikari Ōe (born 1963)
 * Shinkichi Mitsumune (born 1963)
 * Yoko Kanno (born 1963), 20th–21st century music producer and composer
 * Yuki Kajiura (born 1965), 20th–21st century music producer and composer
 * Taro Iwashiro (born 1965)
 * Yoshiki Hayashi (born 1965), 20th–21st century music producer and composer
 * Yoko Shimomura (born 1967), 20th–21st century music pianist and video game composer
 * Yasunori Mitsuda (born 1972)
 * Hiroyuki Sawano (born 1980), 20th–21st century animation, film, television and video game composer