This week’s guest was Crystal Kay.

Crystal Kay x Kanjani8 – Koi ni Ochitara

Crystal Kay – Nando Demo

Hello, Arama! Japan readers! We are excited to announced that we are having our first awards show! The 2015 Arama! Japan Awards will be honoring the best in music, movies, television, anime, manga, video games, and more this coming January! And the winners of these awards will be selected by you, the Arama! Japan readers!

The first step of this awards show is figuring out who will be nominated. That is where you guys come in again. Since you guys are picking the winners, you should also be picking who is in the running to win. We are asking that you fill out a survey, telling us your faves in various categories during the period of December 1, 2014 – November 30, 2015. Voting during this round will be open for a week starting now, with the final nominees to be announced a few days later. Voting for the final round will commence after the announcement of the final nominees. Voting in every category is not mandatory. If you don’t want to vote in certain category, feel free to skip it.

The voting form is after the jump!

Hello Arama! Japan readers! We are back with our monthly wrap up feature (well bi-monthly in this case). A few of the staff members have come together to share their faves for the months of October and November. Find out what the staff was loving these past 2 months! Also feel free to post what you loved this past October and November in the comments!

At 7 PM JST on December 14, the 48th Japan Yusen Taisho will air. The show will be about 2 hours long. Yoshida Yo will host the show, while Yamamoto Takaaki and Ishii Tomohiro will serve as announcers. In addition to the awards being given away, there will be performances by the likes of AKB48, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, Nishiuchi Mariya, Nishino Kana, JUJU, HKT48, NMB48, and Nogizaka46.

Arama! Japan will be live streaming the show and hosting a chat as well so that readers can chat with each other during the show! Links to the show and the chat are after the jump!

Hello Arama! Japan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week saw THE Sharehappi from Sandaime J Soul Brothers win against Kis-My-Ft2 and EXILE. This week we have 2 newcomers. Find out what various staff members thought of the songs that topped the physical and digital charts this week and share your thoughts on them too!

Earlier this year, it was reported that ex-SKE48 member Kito Momona had entered the world of adult films. Her debut movie, “Princess Peach”, was released this past June, using the stage name Mikami Yua. She had originally only planned for her foray into this field to be a one time thing, but her plans have since changed.

Following the success of “Princess Peach”, Momona will be releasing a new film on January 1, titled “Kaikan”, which translates into “Pleasant Feeling.” Like her debut, this movie is also produced by the porn company MUTEKI. The scenes in “Kaikan” will be more explicit than the ones in “Princess Peach”, due to the the fact that rumors surfaced that the scenes in that film may have been faked. After seeing some of the footage from “Kaikan”, Momona tweeted that she felt embarrassed watching it.

In related news, Momona will be releasing her first photobook on December 16, titled “Here you are.”
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This week’s episode of SONGS was dedicated to Masahiko Kondo. The episode features a conversation with Ijuin Shizuka, who has written many of Masahiko’s songs over his 35 year career. Masahiko also performed 3 songs on the show.

Masahiko Kondo – Gin Gira Gin ni Sarigenaku / Orokamono / Otona no Ryuugi

On April 1, BABYMETAL will release their currently untitled new album worldwide. They made this announcement at the final show of their world tour, which was held at Yokohama Arena today. The group will also have a new world tour to go along with the album’s release. It will start on April 2 at London’s Wembley Arena. The final show of that tour will be held at Tokyo Dome on a currently unannounced date. The dates of the world tour will be announced in the future.

BABYMETAL has released a teaser for the album and tour, which can be seen after the jump!