Naoya Matsuoka (1937-2014) is the outrun jazz fusion you've been looking for:
youtube.com/watch?v=TxEf4OKheN

according to an incredibly comprehensive Outrun/Sega AM2 blog Matsuoka's oeuvre literally inspired Outrun's music:
reassembler.blogspot.com/2018/
(seriously, click around this blog, a decade+ of fantastic research awaits)

got there via the blogger commenting on this also-interesting Eurogamer article about artifacts discovered while moving Sega's longtime HQ:
eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10

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@gatewave jpop80ss barely has a fraction of what’s in that screenshot 😨

@noctilucent jpop80ss looks cool, thanks for mentioning it

there's like 3-4 late albums not in that torrent i'm gonna try to round up on SoulSeek (which even in 2019 is often fantastic for this purpose, btw)

@gatewave been meaning to try that! Jpop80ss does have plenty of Masayoshi Takanaka, who I’ve also seen mentioned as an outrun influence (I think in a Red Bull Music Academy interview?) Not as blatant a similarity as Naoya Matsuoka though

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