On October 25, 1978, “Nippon Columbia” label released “Thousand Knives”, the debut Ryuichi Sakamoto album. It was recorded April – July 1978, at “Columbia Studios 1, 2 and 4” in Tokyo, and was produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Personnel:

• Ryuichi Sakamoto – synthesizer (Moog III-C with Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, Polymoog, Minimoog, Micromoog, Oberheim Eight Voice Polyphonic with Digital Programmer, ARP Odyssey, KORG PS-3100 Polyphonic), vocoder (Korg VC-10), analog sequencer (KORG SQ-10), Syn-Drums, piano, marimba, orchestration, liner notes
• Hideki Matsutake – computer operation, synthesizer programming assistance
• Harry Hosono – zill, liner notes
• Motoya Hamaguchi – Syn-Drum solo, Brazilian bird whistles
• Kazumi Watanabe – Alembic guitar, rhythm 
• Yūji Takahashi – piano
• Tatsuro Yamashita – castanets
• Pecker – Syn-Drum solo
• Satoshi “Sign” Saitoh – design
• Makoto Iida – cover photo
• Hikaru Hayashi – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

1. Thousand Knives
2. Island of Woods
3. Grasshoppers
4. Das Neue Japanische Elektronische Volkslied
5. Plastic Bamboo
6. The End of Asia