Nagato Daiko is a Japanese musical producer, musical arranger, writer, and composer. He's more known as a founder of music company Being Inc., which provided million-seller hits during the 1990s and with his music company provided more than 80 theme songs for the anime television series Detective Conan. He was the charge recording producer for the following artist such as Boøwy, Loudness, TUBE, B'z, ZARD, WANDS, Maki Ohguro, DEEN, T-BOLAN, Mai Kuraki, Garnet Crow, and Rina Aiuchi.

In late 1993, he temporarily retired as a producer because of worsening ear disease. In 1997, four years later he returns back into producing business. Music recording label Zain Records established the special label in Kansai, Spoonful and Nagato debuted Miho Komatsu, however, four months later the label was renamed into Amemura O-town Record and lasted until 1999. From this period, he is credited not with his stage name, but instead aliases such as Kanonji and Rockaku.

In 1998, he established a music recording label in Osaka, Giza Studio. In 2007, he resigned as a representative director of Being. In 2008, he established live venue Dojima River Hall.

In July 2013, tax investigations from the Tokyo and Osaka National Tax Offices pointed out about 2 billion yen was missed and 1 billion yen was hidden over the five years from 2007 to 2012. Taking responsibility for this scandal, production activities were suspended until 2014.

In 2016, he returned back as an arranger, producer, and writer to the project D-project which the letter D is initialed from his name. He uses new initial alias +D.

He's active as a producer as of 2020.

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