Ah man, I would have definitely participated just to get Mieko Ishikawa on the list:) I think I might actually have put her on my no.1 spot, I mean I've only just discovered in the last couple of years just how much she has done. She deserves it.

It's funny how my two favorite japanese composers - Kanno and Ishikawa - are both female while in nearly every other genre I lean towards man artists and composers almost exclusively.

PS: on the subject of Ishikawa; Niki relaunched his saladedemais site (for those who used to visit that site), a lot of obscure rips to find there plus the usual great list of Falcom credits.