- Aleksi Barrière, stage director and librettist
- Kyoko Fukushi
- Ko Ishikawa, sho player
- Thomas Kellner, actor
- Naoko Kikuchi, koto player
- Patrik Kleemola, guitarist
- Jan Lehtola, organist and composer
- Lasse Lehtonen, Japanese music researcher
- Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor
- Miika Pölkki, japanologist and translator of the dream diary by Myoe Shonin
- Lauri Sallinen, clarinetist
- Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen, poet and music writer
- Takashi Tokunaga, Ensemble Hakka (Hiroshima)
- Kimihiro Yasaka, pianist
- Nobutaka Yoshizawa, koto player
- Itaru Ogawa, pianist
