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Kiyoshi Koyama (February 12, 1936 – February 3, 2019) was a Japanes jazz journalist and producer of reissues of recordings in the idiom.

Koyama was born in Sakai, in the Osaka Prefecture. His father owned a sewing factory which was destroyed by fire during World War II.

He was editor of Swing Journal from 1967 to 1981 and again from 1990 to 1993. The magazine closed in 2010. During the periods in between, Koyama worked on assembling box-set reissues, such as the complete jazz output of the Keynote label, issued on LP in 1986, and the CD set Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings of Clifford Brown issued in 1989. Both were nominated for Grammy's in the Historical category. He was a disc jockey on the Japanese network NHK hosting a Saturday night program entitled Jazz Tonight. He was the Japanese correspondent for DownBeat magazine. In 2015, he donated his collection of 30,000 interviews, including cassettes of interviews with musicians, to New York University.

Koyama died from stomach cancer in February 2019, aged 82.