Japan’s Fake Music Composer Apologizes for Two Decades of Lying

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Mamoru Samuragochi, the allegedly deaf Japanese composer, apologized for using a ghostwriter to write some of his best known work for almost two decades.

Samuragochi said at a press conference today he didn’t lie about having hearing problems, even though tests at the local government showed his disability didn’t qualify as a hearing impairment.