Japan / 日本

RILM remembers Dr. Tatsuhiko Itō, who passed away on Saturday, 27 September, at the age of 72.

We have received the following from Mari Itoh, President of IAML Japan:

We have to announce another sad piece of news less than six months after Dr. Kishimoto's passing.  Emeritus professor Noriko Murai of Ferris University passed away on December 17, 2020. 

We have received the following from Mari Itoh, President of IAML Japan: Dr. Hiroko Kishimoto, emeritus professor of the Showa University of Music, passed away on the 9th of October. She was one of the founding members of the IAML Japan branch, founded in 1979, and a committee member of the memorable IAML Tokyo Conference in 1988.

Mari Itoh (Aichi Shukutoku University), of IAML Japan and the Japanese corresponding editor for Fontes, was recently a visiting researcher at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart and paid a visit to the WDR Notenarchiv in Cologne--the music archive of the West German Broadcasting Corporation. Here is a summary of her brief stay, followed by a summary of the visit in German by Katharina Jerusalem (WDR intern).

International Musicological Society (IMS) Congress, 2017 in Tokyo
Musicology: Theory and Practice, East and West
Sunday, March 19 to Thursday, March 23, 2017, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan