Give Me More Japanese Musicians

[XoPachi]

Anything like these chaps.

Soichi Terada
Yasuhisa Watanabe
Shinji Hosoe
Ryuuji Nishida
Keishi Yanao
Ken Ishii
Hideki Naganuma
Ayako Saso
Bermei Inazawa
Tetsukazu Nakanishi
Koji Sakurai
Yousuke Yasui
Kohta Hirano

Feel like I'm missing a few.

[GaijinPunch]

Takkyu Ishino / Denki Groove
The amazingly talented Susumu Yokota and his many monikers

[BryanM]

Sorry, I only listen to dog-based Jazz albums, so I only know about Himiko Kikuchi.

[To Far Away Times]

Does Marty Friedman count?

Crazy that he walked away from Megadeth to pursue a life in Japan and Japanese music. The ultimate weeb.

[scrilla4rella]

Edit: Sorry, I didn't look closely at the list from the OP. Takkyu Ishino, Susumu Yokota, and DJ Shufflemaster are musts.

Start with the real OGs:

Yellow Magic Orchestra

All three members have some great records (many of them on Spotify)
Sakamoto Ryuichi (RIP)
Takahashi Yukihiro (RIP, check out the album 'Neuromantic')
Hosono Haruomi

As GP mentioned, Susumu Yokota.

If you're into ambient/beatless stuff then def check out Hiroshi Yoshimura (also RIP). His melodies are spine-tinglingly good.

One of my favorite artists is Shimuzu Yasuaki, whose 1983 record 'Mariah' continues to take my breath away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHL6WB ... riah-Topic

I guess I'm really into the 80s shit. Sound design and engineering really peaked IMO. The country was flush with cash. Labels and artists seemed to have the freedom and budgets to take things to the next level. The mastering and sound quality on many of these records is just unreal.