Japan’s largest karaoke service, JOYSOUND, has released its year end rankings for 2015! The most popular song of the year overall is Hata Motohiro’s “Himawari no Yakusoku”, while the most popular artist of the year overall is Nishino Kana.

The most popular song on UTASUKI, JOYSOUND’s social network, is May’n and Nakajima Megumi’s “Lion”, while the most popular artist on UTASUKI is Nana Mizuki. The most most popular enka / kayokyoku song is Sayuri Ishikawa’s “Amagigoe.” Motohiro’s “Himawari no Yakusoku” also tops the anime / tokusatsu / game music ranking. The most popular vocaloid song is WhiteFlame and Hatsune Miku’s “Senbonzakura.” The most popular Touhou Project song is IOSYS and miko’s “Chiruno no Perfect-san Suu Kyoshitsu”, in its short and full versions. Idina Menzel’s “Let It Go” tops the Western song ranking, while PSY’s “Gangnam Style” tops the KPop song ranking. “Himawari no Yakusoku” by Hata Motohiro tops another ranking, this time the one for JOYSOUND’s smartphone app. WhiteFlame and Hatsune Miku’s “Senbonzakura” tops the ranking for karaoke via game systems, for both PlayStation and Nintendo 3DS.

Check out the full rankings after the jump!

At 7 PM JST on December 2, this year’s edition of Fuji TV’s year end music show FNS Kayousai will air. The show will be a little over 4 hours long. It’s hosted by Chisato Moritaka and Watabe Ken. Performers on the show include Arashi, HKT48, Kanjani8, Kis-My-Ft2, Koda Kumi, GENERATIONS, Kou Shibasaki, JUJU, Superfly, SMAP, Nogizaka46, Flower, BoA, MIYAVI, Momoiro Clover Z, Ken Hirai, Ayumi Hamasaki, and many more.

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!

On November 29th Fukada Kanon graduated from ANGERME, during a special conert named “Kanon Fukada’s Graduation Special”. Her last live was held at the famous Nippon Budokan venue. The group performed 30 songs in total with the setlist composing of ANGERME’s entire career. Highlights include an 8 song medley where Kanon sang a song with each member of the group. Kanon chose “Watashi no Kokoro” as her solo graduation song, a non-single track from s/mileage‘s (ANGERME’s previous name) second album “Smile Sensation”.

While addressing the fans during her ceremony Kanon revealed that she intends to stay in the music industry hoping to become a lyricist;

“My life as an idol was really happy. Thanks, members of ANGERME. Thanks, all of our staff. Thanks, my fans. Someday, I want to write a song that will be the reason for ANGERME breaking through as a superstar. That is my dream, and I will make that dream happen! “.

Since graduating Kanon now has officialy re-joined twitter, you can follow her @KanonFukada!

Fukada Kanon originally became an idol way back in June 2004 as a member of H!P’s trainee program Hello Pro Egg, she eventually made her major debut in May 2010 as one of the original members of s/mileage.

Check out the setlist for the concert, as well as some videos and pictures below.

Hello Arama! Japan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week saw Nishiuchi Mariya take the top spot over Nogizaka46 and THE Sharehappi from Sandaime J Soul Brothers. THE Sharehappi from Sandaime J Soul Brothers is back again this week, along with 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!

From November 27 – 29, this year’s NHK Trophy took place in Nagano. This was the sixth and final event in the International Skating Union’s 2015 – 2016 Grand Prix Series. Japan sent 6 skaters and 2 ice dance teams to this competition. Japanese skaters won 2 gold medals and 2 bronze medals at the event.

Yuzuru Hanyu won the men’s portion of NHK Trophy with a total score of 322.40, beating the combined score world record of 295.27 set by Canada’s Patrick Chan at 2013’s Trophee Eric Bompard. Yuzuru’s short program was given a score of 106.33, the best of the night. This short program score beat the world record of 101.45, which he set at last year’s Olympics. “I have been practicing very, very hard and am really happy with the score. I have to thank all of my teachers and coaches, including Brian (Orser). They deserve the credit,” he said after the short program. Yuzuru continued, “I felt I had to include two quads in the short program. As the Olympic champion I felt it is necessary as I prepare for the 2018 Olympics.” His first place finish in the short program brought back memories. “Like during the Olympic season I could do well in the short program,” he stated. “Now I would like to continue and do my best in the free skate.”

This week’s guest was Rekishi. There were also talk segments with Saito Kazuyoshi and KANA-BOON x Scenarioart.

Rekishi – SHIKIBU

This week’s guests were AKB48, Akai Koen, [Alexandros], Inoue Sonoko, Fairies, and BEAST.

AKB48 – 365 Nichi no Kamihikouki

Akai Koen – KOIKI

[Alexandros] – Girl A

Inoue Sonoko – Daisuki.

Fairies – Mr.Platonic

AKB48 – Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby

BEAST – HANDS UP

This week’s guest was JUJU.

JUJU x Kanjani8 – Kono Yoru wo Tomete yo

JUJU – What You Want