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Sotsugyō (Zone Song)
is the twelfth major-label (and thirteenth over all) single from the Japanese pop group Zone. It was released on February 4, 2004 through Sony Music Records under their MSI label. Both limited and standard versions were released. History "Sotsugyō" was released on February 4, 2004 through Sony Music Records under their MSI label. The single reached as high as #5 on the Oricon charts, and remained on the charts for eight weeks. In 2006, Oricon ran a user survey in which Zone's release of "Sotsugyō" was ranked #16 overall for "The Epitome of Graduation Songs". The single was the band's twelfth single released under a major label, and the thirteenth overall. Two versions of the single were released: a standard version which included a calendar with a random single design, and a limited first pressing which came with a 2004 profile calendar with five different designs. Noriyuki Machida composed and wrote the lyrics for both songs on the single. "Sotsugyō" was arranged by ha-j, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zone (band)
were all-female rock band started in Sapporo, Japan in 1997. Although it initially started as a dance group, they turned to an all-female band. Zone has been categorized in a new genre called "bandol" (a portmanteau of the words band and idol). The band was started and managed by Studio RunTime and released their first single, "Good Days", under the major record label Sony Records, on February 7, 2001. The group has officially ended on March 2, 2013. Their most famous song is "Secret Base (Kimi ga Kureta Mono)", released on August 8, 2001. The single sold about 744,000 copies on Japanese Oricon charts. History Zone started off with eight members in 1997, then reduced to six and finally to four – Miyu Nagase, Mizuho Saito, Maiko Sakae, and Takayo Ookoshi – by the time they released their first indie disc in 1999. Tadayuki Ominami, a representative of Sony Records, noticed that the crowd reaction to the group's debut concert was particularly enthusiastic. Initially, Zon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complete A Side Singles
Complete may refer to: Logic * Completeness (logic) * Completeness of a theory, the property of a theory that every formula in the theory's language or its negation is provable Mathematics * The completeness of the real numbers, which implies that there are no "holes" in the real numbers * Complete metric space, a metric space in which every Cauchy sequence converges * Complete uniform space, a uniform space where every Cauchy net in converges (or equivalently every Cauchy filter converges) * Complete measure, a measure space where every subset of every null set is measurable * Completion (algebra), at an ideal * Completeness (cryptography) * Completeness (statistics), a statistic that does not allow an unbiased estimator of zero * Complete graph, an undirected graph in which every pair of vertices has exactly one edge connecting them * Complete category, a category ''C'' where every diagram from a small category to ''C'' has a limit; it is ''cocomplete'' if every such fun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other trends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid '90s producing and licensing music for animated series such as ''Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, Tofu Records. Releases of So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriyuki Machida
Noriyuki (written: 紀之, 紀行, 敬之, 記之, 徳行, 憲幸, 範之 or 範幸) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese musician *, Japanese motorcycle racer *, Japanese singer and actor *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese video game composer *, Japanese figure skater *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese fencer *, Japanese basketball player * Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (1932–2005), American actor {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boku No Tegami
Boku may refer to: * Bōku, a board game * Boku (juice), a juice carton drink * Boku, Inc., a San Francisco, California-based mobile payments company * University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (''Universität für Bodenkultur Wien''; BOKU) * Shō Boku (1739–1794), king of Ryukyu * Boku, the former codename of Kodu, a child-oriented programming environment from Microsoft * A first-person Japanese pronoun Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspo ..., with an implication of boyishness See also * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiyō No Kiss
Taiyō is the romanization for some Japanese words, such as ''太陽'' for sun and ''大洋'' for ocean. It can also refer to: People A male Japanese given name *, Japanese footballer * Taiyō Kea (born 1975), American professional wrestler *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese professional wrestler Organisations * ''Taiyō'' (magazine), a Japanese magazine * Taiyo Yakuhin or Taiyo Pharmaceutical Industry, a pharmaceutical product manufacturing company located in Takayama, Gifu, Japan * Taiyō Whales, one of the previous names of the Yokohama BayStars * Maruha Nichiro, a Japanese seafood company once known as Taiyo * Taiyo Yuden, a manufacturer of electronic components * Taiyo Department Store, a now-defunct department store in Kumamoto, Kumamoto famous for a 1973 fire Other * Japanese aircraft carrier ''Taiyō'', the first of the Taiyō class escort aircraft carriers * ''Taiyo'' (Chisato Moritaka album), 1996 * Taiyō (song), the first single by Japanese band GO!GO!7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoki Ishizuka
Tomoki is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Tomoki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: *友紀, "friend, chronicle" *友規, "friend, to scheme" *友喜, "friend, rejoice" *友貴, "friend, precious" *友機, "friend, opportunity/machine" *友基, "friend, foundation" *友輝, "friend, sparkle" *友起, "friend, rise/wake up" *友希, "friend, hope" *友毅, "friend, firm" *知紀, "know, chronicle" *知規, "know, to scheme" *知喜, "know, rejoice" *知貴, "know, precious" *知機, "know, opportunity/machine" *知樹, "know, tree" *智紀, "intellect, chronicle" *智規, "intellect, to scheme" *智喜, "intellect, rejoice" *智貴, "intellect, precious" *共紀, "together, chronicle" *共貴, "together, precious" *朋喜, "companion, rejoice" *朋毅, "companion, firm" *朝紀, "morning/dynasty, chronicle" *朝機, "morning/dynasty, opportunity/machine" *朝樹, "morning/dynasty, tree" *朝毅, "morning/dynasty, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Singles
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese-language Songs
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
