Kyohei Tsutsumi, a veteran composer of popular Japanese songs that impacted the country's music scene in the 1970s and 1980s, has died of aspiration pneumonia, sources close to the matter said Monday. He was 80.Tsutsumi, whose real name was Eikichi Watanabe, died on Wednesday at his Tokyo home, the sources said. With a career spanning more than half a century, he composed about 3,000 songs, including the theme song for "Sazae-san," the world's longest-running animated TV show and a household name in Japan that began airing in 1969.Tsutsumi created a number of pop hits such as "Nantettate Id…READ FULL ARTICLE
