Japan's Ryuichi Sakamoto, fighting cancer, livestreams what may be final concert

The musician and composer has won an Oscar for the music of Bernard Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor'. Photo: Reuters

Japan's Ryuichi Sakamoto, known for his electronic music, including the score for The Last Emperor, on Monday (Dec 12) finished streaming a concert that may be the last for the Academy-award winning composer, who is fighting stage 4 cancer.

Sakamoto, 70, said in an online message in December that the unorthodox performance – broadcast to more than two dozen nations around the world – came about because he could no longer complete a regular concert.