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Kenji Suzuki

Kenji Suzuki is credited on 180 releases across 75 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Biography

Kenji Suzuki (鈴木健二, Suzuki Kenji; 23 January 1929 – 29 March 2024) was a Japanese freelancer moderator and former television announcer of NHK General TV. He is best known for as an executive announcer for NHK (with director status) from 1952 until his retirement 1988. He is also best known for hosting programs, such as History Invitation and Interesting Quiz Seminar, which he achieved high ratings, and also, he written many books, including The Recommendation of Consideration, which became a bestseller in Japan. Recently, Suzuki became as a director of Kumamoto Prefectural Theater, where he worked on restoring traditional performing arts with among others. In 1998, Suzuki also became as a director of Aomori Prefectural Library and Aomori Prefecture Museum of Modern Literature. He is the younger brother of Japanese film director Seijun Suzuki (1923–2017). Suzuki died of natural causes at the hospital in Fukuoka on 29 March 2024, at the age of 95.

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