Reports out of Japan announced that composer Yūshi Matsuyama (Shigeru Matsuyama) passed away last week from injuries sustained from a house fire. He was 79,
The fire started around 4.30 p.m. at Matsuyama's two story residence, the fire burned about 10 square meters of the home and Matsuyama had to be rescued from the room and taken to the hospital and was later pronounced dead.
Matsuyama was best know for his work on mutlipe television shows, movies, and commercials. He is probably best know for the them songs for the 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime. He returned to the franchsie to compose some other work for the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin video game.