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Composer Sugiyama, creator of 'Dragon Quest' music, dies at 90

Koichi Sugiyama speaks during an interview in Tokyo in March 2016. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Composer Koichi Sugiyama, who created music for the popular role-playing game series "Dragon Quest," died on Sept. 30, it has been learned. He was 90 years old.

Sugiyama is also known for composing songs in a genre of 1960s Japanese pop music known as "group sounds."

He died of septic shock.

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