Yuu Aku

Wiki jphttps://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ He was famous for thousands of his lyrics he contributed to many recording artists since 1967. Mainly during the 1970s more than 20 of them reached the numberone on the Japanese Oricon chart and 7 singles sold more than a million copies. Over 500 of his compositions released as a single have entered the Japanese record charts and they sold in excess of 68 million copies from 1968 to 2007 making him the most commercially successful Japanese lyricist which was followed by Matsumoto Takashi and Komuro Tetsuya. Throughout his 40year career as a lyricist Aku won the Japan Record Award for five times. He was also acclaimed as a novelist producing several awardwinning works. In 1999 Aku received the Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Government of Japan in honour of his longterm contributions for the countrys entertainment.