NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Toshifumi Hinata on 4 May 2018. Toshifumi Hinata has been played on NTS over 110 times, featured on 100 episodes and was first played on 1 September 2014.

Toshifumi Hinata (日向敏文) is a Japanese composer.

He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he studied under the tutelage of Patricia Laliberte. He lived in Surrey (England), Wisconsin, Minnesota and Massachusetts during the 70s and 80s. His career started upon graduation from university in 1982. He has composed music for numerous TV dramas, documentaries and commercials. He currently resides in Tokyo.