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Kohmi Hirose is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter. Since the release of her million-selling single "Romance no Kamisama" in 1993, Hirose has recorded music for winter-sporting goods company Alpen's advertising campaigns. This has prompted the Japanese pu ...

, from her third studio album, '' Success Story''. It was released on December 1, 1993 by

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as the album's second single. It is Hirose's most successful single to date, selling two million copies in Japan alone. ''Romance no Kamisama'' was also the first of Hirose's songs to be featured by the Alpen company, a Japanese

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s store, in their winter advertisements, resulting in the Japanese public affectionately naming Hirose the .

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Although the song was initially included on her third album '' Success Story'', "Romance no Kamisama" has also been featured on the compilation albums '' The Best "Love Winters"'' (which has sold 2.4 million copies), '' Alpen Best'', and '' Tie-Up Collection: Hirose Kohmi no Terebi de Kīta Ano Kyokutachi''. ''Alpen Best'' also featured a piano-only arrangement of the song; this same version was later featured on Hirose's eleventh studio album ''

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". "Romance no Kamisama" ultimately sold 1.75 million physical copies. In an October 16, 2010,

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recording of her ''Hirose Kohmi Radio de Follow Me'' radio show (later broadcast by

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on October 21), Hirose stated that before the song was released the

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. Once it sold 1.7 million copies, the president followed through on his promise and sent ten staff members to Florida for nine days.

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