TOKYO
— He was celebrated as a prolific musical genius whose compositions
appeared in popular video games and the competition routine of a top
figure skater in the coming Sochi Olympics. His deafness won him praise
as Japan’s modern-day Beethoven.
It turns out his magnum opus was his own masquerade.
On
Thursday, Japan learned that one of its most popular musical figures,
Mamoru Samuragochi, 50, had staged an elaborate hoax in which someone
else had secretly written his most famous compositions, and that he had
perhaps even faked his hearing disability. More
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