birthdate: '1971'
birthplace: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
discography:
- catalog: TOCT-24819
  date: '2002-06-19'
  link: album/73410
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Promoter
  titles:
    en: DEEP RIVER / Hikaru Utada
    ja: DEEP RIVER / 宇多田ヒカル
    ja-latn: DEEP RIVER / Hikaru Utada
  type: game
- catalog: TOCT-26067
  date: '2006-06-14'
  link: album/22901
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Promoter
  titles:
    en: ULTRA BLUE / Hikaru Utada
    ja: ULTRA BLUE / 宇多田ヒカル
    ja-latn: ULTRA BLUE / Hikaru Utada
  type: game
- catalog: TOCT-26579
  date: '2008-07-02'
  link: album/80529
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Promoter
  titles:
    en: Love Forever / Jyongri
    ja: Love Forever / Jyongri
    ja-latn: Love Forever / Jyongri
  type: game
- catalog: TOCT-27027~8
  date: '2010-11-24'
  link: album/109564
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Media Promoter
  titles:
    en: UTADA HIKARU SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.2
    ja: UTADA HIKARU SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.2
    ja-latn: UTADA HIKARU SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.2
  type: game
- catalog: TYCT-60055
  date: '2014-12-09'
  link: album/49553
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Promoter
  titles:
    en: Utada Hikaru no Uta -13-kumi no Ongakuka ni Yoru 13 no Kaishaku ni Tsuite-
    ja: 宇多田ヒカルのうた -13組の音楽家による13の解釈について-
    ja-latn: Utada Hikaru no Uta -13-kumi no Ongakuka ni Yoru 13 no Kaishaku ni Tsuite-
  type: game
- catalog: TYCT-60084
  date: '2016-06-29'
  link: album/109675
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Marketing Director
  titles:
    en: Toto Neechan Original Soundtrack Vol.1
    ja: NHK連続テレビ小説『とと姉ちゃん』オリジナル・サウンドトラック Vol.1
    ja-latn: Toto Neechan Original Soundtrack Vol.1
  type: live
- catalog: UPCH-20485
  date: '2018-05-23'
  link: album/121707
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Guest
  titles:
    en: Adam to Eve no Ringo
    ja: アダムとイヴの林檎
    ja-latn: Adam to Eve no Ringo
  type: works
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2019-01-18'
  link: album/83645
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Marketing Director
  titles:
    en: Face My Fears / Hikaru Utada
    ja: Face My Fears / Hikaru Utada
    ja-latn: Face My Fears / Hikaru Utada
  type: game
- catalog: ESCL-5150
  date: '2019-01-18'
  link: album/80951
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Marketing Director
  titles:
    en: Face My Fears / Hikaru Utada
    ja: Face My Fears / 宇多田ヒカル
    ja-latn: Face My Fears / Hikaru Utada
  type: game
- catalog: ESCL-5755
  date: '2023-03-29'
  link: album/125327
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Marketing Director
  titles:
    en: DESSERTS / LMYK
    ja: DESSERTS / LMYK
    ja-latn: DESSERTS / LMYK
  type: anime
- catalog: ESCL-5919
  date: '2024-02-21'
  link: album/136095
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Marketing Director
  - A&R Chief
  titles:
    en: Kimi ga Kokoro wo Kureta kara Original Soundtrack
    ja: フジテレビ系ドラマ「君が心をくれたから」オリジナル・サウンドトラック
    ja-latn: Kimi ga Kokoro wo Kureta kara Original Soundtrack
  type: live
featured_on: []
info:
  Birthdate: '1971'
  Birthplace: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
  Credited works:
  - 11 albums in database
  - 1 products in database
  Credits:
  - 5 marketing director
  - 4 promoter
  - 1 media promoter
  - 1 guest
  - 1 a&r chief
  - 1 special thanks
  - 1 label staff
  Education: '1995: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chuo University'
  Former Organizations:
  - link: org/2375
    names:
      en: Virgin Music
      ja: Virgin Music
  - link: org/35
    names:
      en: NIPPON COLUMBIA CO., LTD.
      ja: 日本コロムビア株式会社
  - link: org/19
    names:
      en: Toshiba EMI Ltd.
      ja: 東芝EMI株式会社
  - link: org/514
    names:
      en: EMI Music Japan Inc.
      ja: EMIミュージック・ジャパン
  - link: org/2241
    names:
      en: EMI Records Japan
      ja: EMI Records Japan
  - link: org/2240
    names:
      en: EMI Records
      ja: EMI Records
  - link: org/532
    names:
      en: UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
      ja: ユニバーサルミュージック合同会社
  Organizations: &id001
  - link: org/3152
    names:
      en: Sony Music Labels 3rd Label Group
      ja: ソニー・ミュージックレーベルズ 第3レーベルグループ
  - link: org/2356
    names:
      en: Epic Records Japan
      ja: Epic Records Japan
  - link: org/1338
    names:
      en: Sony Music Labels Inc.
      ja: 株式会社ソニー・ミュージックレーベルズ
  - link: org/63
    names:
      en: Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
      ja: 株式会社ソニー・ミュージックエンタテインメント
link: artist/68220
meta:
  added_date: 2024-12-29T11:58
  edited_date: 2024-12-29T12:08
  fetched_date: 2026-01-05T11:19
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 324
name: Nozomu Kaji
name_real: 梶 望
name_trans: かじ のぞむ
notes: 'Manager at Sony Music Labels 3rd Label Group and Epic Records Japan 3rd Production
  Department.

  In charge of marketing for Hikaru Utada and Ikimonogakari (since 2020).

  Also a visiting professor of Music Business at the Osaka College of Music and Senzoku
  Gakuen College of Music.

  Employment History

  - 1995: Joined NIPPON COLUMBIA CO., LTD.

  - 1996: Joined Toshiba EMI Ltd. (later EMI Music Japan Inc. / EMI Records Japan
  / EMI Records (Division))

  - 2017: Joined Sony Music Labels due to Hikaru Utada''s label transfer'
organizations: *id001
picture_full: https://media.vgm.io/artists/02/68220/68220-1735502510.jpg
picture_small: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/artists/02/68220/68220-1735502510.jpg
sex: male
twitter_names:
- kajibow
type: Individual
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/artist/68220?perpage=99999
websites:
  Interview: []
  Personal: []
  Reference: []
