The second Music Station Ultra Fes, in celebration of the show’s 30th anniversary, will air on September 19. The show will air from 12 PM – 9:48 PM. Performers will include the likes of Arashi, Kaela Kimura, Akiko Yano, Hoshino Gen, Utada Hikaru, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Masaharu Fukuyama. A partial song list for the show has now been released! Check it out below!

This week’s guests were Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Ken Yokoyama, The Cro Magnons, 04 Limited Sazabys, and Bodan Shonen Dan.

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra feat. Ken Yokoyama – Sayonara Hotel

The Cro Magnons – Petenshi Rock

04 Limited Sazabys – Warp

Bodan Shonen Dan – FIRE -Japanese Ver.-

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This week, HKT48 topped the Oricon single chart with their new single “Saikou ka yo”, selling 269,907 copies in its first week.

Bodan Shonen Dan topped the Oricon album chart with their new album “YOUTH”, selling 76,483 copies in its first week.

Yu Yamada is pregnant with her second child. She is currently in stable condition as revealed by a close acquaintance. She is expected to give birth in February or March of next year.

Yu Yamada and Shun Oguri married in 2012 and the two have a daughter together. Their first child was born last September. It has been mentioned they want at least three children. She asked for everyone’s warm wishes since it’s still too early to tell if anything will happen.

Police in Sapporo have arrested Yamanaka Izumi, a 25-year-old woman from Kagawa Prefecture, on suspicion of illegally scalping Arashi concert tickets.

According to police, Yamanaka has been accused of reselling five Arashi concert tickets to three women from Sapporo last November to December.

Police said investigations have shown that the woman purchased tickets on a website and resold more than 300 tickets over the past year and a half. She is reported to have profited approximately 10 million yen (~100,000 USD) in total since.

Earlier today, we reported on a teaser version for the new music video for “Nijikan Dake no Vacance” by Utada Hikaru featuring Shiina Ringo, and now we have a link to the music video in full, taken straight off MTV Japan.

Without further ado, watch the full music video after the gap and, as the song title says, enjoy watching Ringo and Hikki have a futuristic 2 Hour Vacation together!

On October 19, Sakanaction will release their new single, “Tabun, Kaze.” The then-untitled single was originally supposed to be released on August 10, but was delayed so that the band could perfect things. The songmaking process for this song took over a year. A clip of “Tabun, Kaze.” was previously heard earlier this year in the commercial for Shiseido’s Anessa sunscreen.

The single’s B-side, “moon”, is the CM song for au×HAKUTO MOON CHALLENGE. au has teamed up with HAKUTO, the only Japanese team entered in Google Lunar XPRIZE, a competition between various international teams to see which one can land a rover on the moon, with all private financing. Sakanaction’s frontman Ichiro Yamaguchi appears in the commercial with HAKUTO’s leader Takeshi Hakamada.

The DVD / Blu-ray that comes with the limited edition of the single includes footage from 2 LINE LIVE sessions, one with Boku no Lyric no Boyomi, and the other with model LUKA, who appeared in the music video for the band’s song “Slow Motion.” The video disc also features a portion titled “BAR Sakanaction＿”, in which Ichiro plays bartender for his bandmates. Altogether, the DVD / Blu-ray that comes with the single is over 100 minutes long.

Check out more information on the single below!