[2][3] His music lies mostly in the minimalist genre of kankyō ongaku, or environment music—soft electronic melodies infused with the sounds of nature: babbling brooks, steady rain, and morning birds.

His album Green (1986) only contained them in the United States release, as they were excluded in the Japanese version.

[5][4][6] In 2017, Yoshimura, as well as other ambient Japanese musicians, received a resurgence due to changes to the YouTube algorithm.

[9] Malcolm Standing for Demo Magazine referred to Yoshimura as "one of the most influential and prolific of the artists to come out of Japan’s ambient renaissance".

[10] Tom Moon of NPR noted Yoshimura as "one of the revered pioneers of Japanese electronic music".