The White Team won at the Kouhaku Utagassen(The Year End Singing Event of NHK)
As I wrote on my previous page here, in Japan we many Japanese traditionally enjoy “Kouhaku Utagassen”(The year End Singing Event of NHK)at the new year’s eve’s night. http://www9.nhk.or.jp/kouhaku/artists/index.html
And The White Team won — this is the team’s fifth voctory in a row of totally 32 victories in the past.
At this year’s 60th memorable Kouhaku, 50 groups/singers, 25 of which were of The White Team and 25 of which were The Red Team respectively ,performed. This year young idols, idols groups, an anime voice actress, young child stars, pop singers, versed Enka singers,and other excellent musicians performed in a hot atmosphere. Susan Boyle from UK was invited to the event as a special guest and showed us her great voice. http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/International/Special/susanboyle/
Masaharu Fukuyama(福山雅治),a popular singer/ actor also sang his song in Nagasaki that is his home as well as a setting place of the new NHK drama “Roumaden” whose hero Ryouma Sakamoto is going to be played by him from January.
This new drama is about a heroic man who established the basis of modern society of Japan. http://www9.nhk.or.jp/ryomaden/
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[…] As I wrote on a previous page here, Mizuki performed as a singer on “Kouhaku Uta Gassen” (紅白歌合戦), a Japanese nationally popular singing event annually held on the new year’s eve, on Dec.31st 2009 as the very first voice actor to perform in the 60-year-long history of that great TV show. http://www.tenkai-japan.com/2009/11/24/kouhaku-performers-names-revealed/ And as I also wrote, her team ” Team Red ” couldn’t win at the event, but her performance was excellent,which was welcomed by the audience and the viewers with enthusiasm. http://www.tenkai-japan.com/2010/01/01/the%e3%80%80white%e3%80%80team%e3%80%80won-at-the-kouhaku-uta… […]