Masao Ohki was first played on NTS on 28 August 2024. Songs played include Symphony No. 5, "Hiroshima".

Masao Ohki was a Japanese composer. He was born on 3rd October 1901 in Iwata, a small provincial city on the Pacific coast in central Japan, and grew up in the larger nearby city of Shizuoka. His father was a teacher at a girls' high school and he spent his childhood during a period when westernisation was bringing an interest in western music, with operas and orchestral concerts occasionally heard in big cities like Tokyo. The circumstances in provincial cities were different. There were only a few…