Minoru Yamamoto

was a Japanese composer. He is known principally for writing the tune for the Hiroshima Peace Song.

Biography After graduating from Tokyo Music School's teacher training course in 1936, Yamamoto went to work as teacher in Maebashi Girls' High School

His speciality was music tuition,

Yamamoto composed nearly 100 school anthems

The Hiroshima Peace Festival Association was established in June (with Hamai as chair and Ishijima as vice-chair), and in July solicited submissions for a song, with the result that the Hiroshima Peace Song was selected on 22 July 1947. It was performed at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony for the first time that year, on 6 August, and has been sung at the event ever since apart from 1950, when the ceremony was abruptly cancelled due to pressure from the occupation forces related to the Korean War and possible use of the atomic bomb there.