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Takashi Niigaki, ghost writer of well known deaf composer Mamoru Samuragochi, a composer Japanese have likened to Beethoven for supposedly composing music despite a severe hearing impairment, reacts to a reporter's question during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Niigaki said he hopes to continue composing and performing, despite the uproar over Samuragochi’s admission on Wednesday that he did not write the pieces he is best known for, such as his “Hiroshima Symphony.” (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)