The two have worked together on various game franchises including Final Fantasy, Blue Dragon, and Terra Battle.
Uematsu also scored the Chrono Trigger game (with primary composer Yasunori Mitsuda), the Blue Dragon anime, the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children film, Ah!
Uematsu had just appeared in Otakon in Washington, D.C. in August for two Final Fantasy concerts.
The concert at the Ishikawa Ongakudō hall would have been the first orchestral concert covering the breadth of Uematsu’s game collaborations with game director Hironobu Sakaguchi.