is a Japanese award for the most searched products, media and people during the year.

Overview

Each year, Yahoo! Japan recognizes celebrities and businesses in various award categories for achieving significant search volumes for related keywords. The successful keywords in each category show the significant social impact of search terms and the reciprocal nature of what people search for online and what they're interested in offline. There are multiple award categories in three major categories (Person, Culture, and Product), and the most searched for item in the Person category is selected for the Grand Prize. In addition to those listed below, a local category was established in the 3rd edition (2016) to select the fastest-rising search terms related to the area by users in each of the 47 prefectures. From the 8th edition (2021), the product and local categories were abolished and reduced to only the person and culture categories.

Award winners

2014 Awards

Announced on December 8, 2014. * Grand Prize :

Yuzuru Hanyu is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. He is a two-time Olympic champion (2014, 2018), a two-time World champion (2014, 2017), a four-time Grand Prix Final champion (2013–2016), the 2020 Four Continents champion, the 2010 World J ...

* Person category ** Actor category: Ebizo Ichikawa ** Actress category:

Satomi Ishihara , better known by her stage name , is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Biography Satomi Ishihara was born on December 24, 1986, in Tokyo. She is of blood type A, and her height is 157 cm. Satomi began her acting profession in 2003 at the ag ...

** Owarai Tarento Division: Nippon Elekitel Rengo ** Athletes Division:

** Special category: HIKAKIN ** Model category:

Miwako Kakei Miwako (written: 美和子, 三和子 or 実和子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese actress *, Japanese model, actress and television personality *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese synchronized swi ...

** Musician Division: SEKAI NO OWARI ** Idol category: Kanna Hashimoto ( Rev. from DVL ) * Culture category ** Drama section: Hanako and Anne ** Novel Division: Roosevelt Game ** Game Division:

Monster Strike is a mobile Japanese role-playing physics game with elements of puzzle, strategy and cooperative multiplayer. It is developed by XFLAG for iOS and Android platforms. The game was created by former Capcom game designer Yoshiki Okamoto. In J ...

** Film Division: Frozen ** Anime section: Yo-Kai Watch * Product category ** Cosmetics category: Lunasol Eyeshadow ( Kanebo Cosmetics ) ** Car division: Hustler ( Suzuki ) ** Home Appliances: Raycop (Raycop Japan) ** Back-order department: Mochi Yakumo (Chimoto, a sweets shop) ** Beverage sector: Almond effect ( Glico )

2015 Awards

Announced on December 9, 2015. * Grand Prize :

Sandaime J Soul Brothers , formerly simply J Soul Brothers and stylized as Sandaime J Soul Brothers from Exile Tribe, are a J-pop vocal and dance group formed by Exile ex-leader and producer Hiroyuki Igarashi in Japan in 1991. Sandaime J Soul Brothers are managed by Hiroy ...

from EXILE TRIBE * Person category ** Actor category:

Masataka Kubota is a Japanese actor. Filmography Films * ''Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu'' (2009) * ''Kyōretsu! Mōretsu!! Kodai Shōjo Doguchan Matsuri Special Movie Edition'' (2010), Makoto Sugihara * ''Gachiban Series'' (2010–2014), Yūto Kuronaga * ...

** Actress category:

Suzu Hirose is a Japanese actress and model. Despite her young age, she is widely regarded as one of the most promising Japanese actresses of her generation. Biography Hirose debuted as a model for Japanese fashion magazine '' Seventeen'', alongside her si ...

** Owarai Tarento Division: 8.6 seconds Bazooka ** Athletes Division: Goromaru Ayumu ** Model Division:

Nicole Fujita is a New Zealand-born Japanese model and ''tarento''. She is represented by the talent agency Oscar Promotion and is currently active in Tokyo. She is an exclusive model for the fashion magazine '' ViVi''. Career In 2012, Fujita won the 13th Ni ...

** Musician Division:

from EXILE TRIBE ** Idol category:

Hey! Say! JUMP Hey! Say! JUMP (HSJ or JUMP) is an eight-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. The group is split into two sub-groups: Hey! Say! BEST and Hey! Say! 7. In Japan they sold more than 10 million physical co ...

** Writer category:

Naoki Matayoshi is a Japanese comedian, screenwriter, and novelist who won the Akutagawa Prize in 2015 for his book ', which was adapted into the Netflix series '' Hibana: Spark''. Matayoshi is the '' boke'' of his comedy duo ''Peace'' alongside his partner Yu ...

** Voice actor category:

Tomoko Kaneda is a Japanese voice actress and radio personality born in Yokohama, Japan. She had worked at Aoni Production for 11 years and had worked freelance since April 2011 and it was announced that she transferred to Across Entertainment in August 2011 ...

* Culture category ** Drama category: Rare ** Novel section: Sparks ** Game Division:

** Film Division: Jurassic World ** Anime section: Assassination Classroom * Product category ** Cosmetics category: Yves Saint Laurent Lipstick (Yves Saint Laurent) ** Car division: S660 ( Honda ) ** Home Appliances Division: Dyson Vacuum Cleaner (Dyson) ** Back-order department: Freshly made potato chips (Kikusudo) ** Beverage category:

Sokenbicha (; ), is a Japanese blended tea brand of The Coca-Cola Company Introduced first to the Japanese market in 1993, it became available to the U.S. market in October 2010. In the U.S., Sokenbicha features a line of five blended teas inspired by the te ...

( Coca-Cola Japan ) ** Sweets category: Seven Cafe Donuts ( Seven-Eleven )

2016 Awards

Announced on December 7, 2016. * Grand Prize :

Dean Fujioka , better known as , is a Japanese actor, singer-songwriter, musician, model and film director. He is a talent of Amuse, Inc. Biography Dean Fujioka was born in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Moving with his family, he grew up in Kamagaya, ...

* Person category ** Actor category:

** Actress category:

Mitsuki Takahata is a Japanese actress and singer who is represented by the talent agency Horipro. She attended Hosei University as an undergraduate student Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate ...

** Owarai Tarento Division: Kazureza ( Maple Super Alloy ) ** Athletes Division: Ai Fukuhara ** Model division: ryuchell ** Musician Division: Sakura Fujiwara ** Idol category:

Sakurazaka46 , formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The group was created on August 21, 2015, becoming Nogizaka46's first sister group under the Sakamichi Series. Following the resignation of group's center Yurina Hirate an ...

** Writer category: Sayaka Murata ** Voice actor category: Yuichi Nakamura * Culture category ** Drama section:

Sanada Maru The was a small fortification attached to Osaka castle. It is famous for being impregnable and playing a key role in defending the castle in the winter of 1615. Later, it was forcefully destroyed despite being exempt from the reconciliation con ...

** Novel section: I want to eat your pancreas ** Game Division:

Pokémon GO ''Pokémon Go'' (stylized as ''Pokémon GO'') is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game, part of the ''Pokémon'' franchise, developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android ...

** Movie Division:

Your name. is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films. It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies. The film was commissio ...

** Buzzwords category: PPAP ** Special category:

Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

* Product category ** Cosmetics category: Marriage Lip ( Estee Lauder ) ** Car division: Estima ( Toyota ) ** Home Appliances Division:

PlayStation VR The PlayStation VR (PS VR, known by its code name Project Morpheus during development) is a virtual reality headset developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which was released in October 2016. It is fully functional with the PlayStation 4 an ...

( Sony Interactive Entertainment ) ** Back-order department:

Menchi-katsu is a Japanese breaded and deep-fried ground meat patty; a fried meat cake.''Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary'', The meat is usually ground beef, pork, or a mixture of the two. It is often served in inexpensive ''bento'' and '' teis ...

(Kakunoshin) ** Beverages: Mets ( Kirin Beverage ) ** Sweets category: Happy pancakes ** Food Division: Super Barley Granola

2017 Awards

Announced on December 6, 2017. * Grand Prize : Chiemi Blouson * Person category ** Actor category: Issei Takahashi ** Actress category: Riho Yoshioka ** Owarai Tarento Division: Chiemi Blouson ** Athletes Division: Anne Cine ** Model category: Rika Izumi ** Musician Division:

Namie Amuro Namie Amuro ( ; ja, 安室奈美恵, Amuro Namie, label=none; born September 20, 1977) is a Japanese former recording artist, producer, songwriter, dancer, model, actress and entrepreneur who was active between 1992 and 2018. A leading figure of ...

** Idol category:

** Writer category:

Kazuo Ishiguro Sir Kazuo Ishiguro ( ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most cr ...

** Voice actor section:

Junichi Suwabe is a Japanese voice actor and singer from Tokyo. He is affiliated with Haikyō. His popular roles include Omega Zero in Megaman Zero 3 , Keigo Atobe in '' The Prince of Tennis'', Victor Nikiforov in '' Yuri!!! on ICE'', Grimmjow Jaegerjaque ...

** Special category (male): Souta Fujii ** Special category (female):

Mei Nagano is a Japanese actress. Amongst her film and television credits are Rinko in the film '' My Love Story!'', Suzume Yosano in the film '' Daytime Shooting Star'', and Suzume Nireno in the 98th NHK asadora ''Hanbun, Aoi''. Career Nagano was scouted ...

* Culture category ** Anime section:

Kemono Friends is a Japanese media franchise created by manga artist Mine Yoshizaki. The first project was a mobile game developed by Nexon, which ran from March 2015 to December 2016. A manga by Furai was serialized in Kadokawa's '' Monthly Shōn ...

** Movie Division:

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...

** Game Division:

Dragon Quest XI ''Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age'' is a role-playing video game by Square Enix. The eleventh entry in the long-running ''Dragon Quest'' video game series, it was released in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation 4 in July 2017 an ...

In search of the passing time ** Novel section: My husband's dick does not fit ** Drama Division: Code Blue -Doctor Heli Emergency Lifesaving- ** Buzzword category: Sontaku * Product category ** Beverage category:

( Coca-Cola Japan ) ** Back- order department: LeTAO 　cheesecake ** Home Appliances Division : Nintendo Switch ** Car Division: Harrier (Toyota) ** Cosmetics category: OPERA Lip Tint ** Food department: Nogami "raw" bread ** Sweets category: Jiichiro's Baumkuchen

2018 Awards

Announced on December 5, 2018 * Grand Prize :

King & Prince King & Prince is a five-member Japanese idol group under Johnny & Associates that debuted in 2018. The group was originally a Johnny's Jr. unit, ''Mr. King vs Mr. Prince'' that was composed of 2 separate units: Mr. King and Prince. The units lat ...

* Person category ** Actor category:

Tomoya Nakamura is a Japanese actor. He is known for the Japanese voice of Aladdin in the 2019 live action remake Career Nakamura made his debut in the film '' The Innocent Seven'' in 2005. Filmography Film Television Japanese dub Awards References ...

** Actress category:

Mio Imada is a Japanese actress and model from Fukuoka. Imada began her acting and modelling career in 2015 after being labelled “Prettiest Girl in Fukuoka” by a local advertising agency. Her acting big break was in 2018 when she was cast as Airi Maya ...

** Owarai Tarento Division: Hyokkorihan ** Athletes Division:

** Model division:

Kōki Japanese calendar types have included a range of official and unofficial systems. At present, Japan uses the Gregorian calendar together with year designations stating the year of the reign of the current Emperor. The written form starts with t ...

, ** Musician Division:

** Idol category:

** Voice actor category:

Yumiko Kobayashi is a freelance Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture. She was formerly affiliated with Arts Vision until August 2007. She made her voice acting debut as Mita in '' Kirara'' while still in college in 1998, and her first lead role was as Ke ...

** Writer category: Taro Yabe ( Karateka ) ** Special category (male):

** Special category (female):

Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champio ...

* Culture category ** Anime Division: Pop Team Epic ** Film Division:

The Greatest Showman ''The Greatest Showman'' is a 2017 American biographical musical drama film directed by Michael Gracey in his directorial debut, written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon and starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, ...

** Game Division: Monster Hunter: World ** Novel section: My husband's dick does not fit ** Drama category: Half blue. ** Buzzwords section: Ohsako is odd * Product category ** Beverages: Ayataka (Coca-Cola Japan) ** Back-order department: LeTAO cheesecake ** Home Appliances: iPhone 8 ( Apple ) ** Car Division: Jimny (Suzuki) ** Cosmetics category: Opera Lip Tint ** Food department: Nogami "raw" bread ** Sweets category: Red silo ( Seigetsu )

2019 Awards

Announced on December 4, 2019. Of the originally planned categories, the person category special category award and the product category order category award were not announced due to the request of the winners. * Grand Prize :

Ryusei Yokohama is a Japanese actor, model, and former singer. He is affiliated with Stardust Promotion. He is best known for playing the role of the pink-haired Yuri Kyohei in the 2019 romantic comedy drama Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi as well as ...

* Person category ** Actor category:

** Actress category: Yu Aoi ** Owarai Tarento Division: Ringo-chan ** Athletes Division:

Hinako Shibuno is a Japanese professional golfer who won the 2019 Women's British Open. Early years Shibuno was born in Okayama, Japan on 15 November 1998. Her father was a discus thrower and her mother was a javelin thrower. She is the middle child of ...

** Model category: Yuki Poyo ** Musician Division:

Aimyon is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She is from Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture. Her agency is ENS Entertainment, and her label is unBORDE under Warner Music Japan. Career Aimyon was influenced to become a singer-songwriter in part because ...

** Idol category:

Hinatazaka46 is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The group was established as a subgroup of Keyakizaka46 named Hiragana Keyakizaka46 on November 30, 2015, and was renamed and spun off into its own group on February 11, 2019. The group's ...

** Voice actor category:

Yuki Kaji Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Yuki, ...

** Writer category:

Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series ''One Piece'' (1997–present). With more than 516.5 million ''tankōbon'' copies in circulation worldwide, ''One Piece'' is both the best-selling manga in history and the best-se ...

* Culture category ** Anime Division:

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. It follows teenage Tanjiro Kamado, who strives to become a demon slayer after his family was slaughtered and his younger sister, Nezuko Kamado, Nezuko, turned into a ...

** Movie Division:

Weathering with You is a 2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. It depicts a high school boy who runs away from his rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who has the ability to control the w ...

** Game Division: Dragon Quest Walk ** Novel section:

The Twelve Kingdoms is a Japanese series of fantasy novels written by Fuyumi Ono and illustrated by Akihiro Yamada. The first entry in the series called ''The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow'' was published by Kodansha in Japan in 1992; the last Kodansha volume ...

** Drama Division: It's your turn ** Buzzwords category: Reiwa * Product category ** Beverages: Gong Cha Tapioca Milk Tea ** Home Appliances Division: IQOS ( Philip Morris Japan ) ** Car division: RAV4 (Toyota) ** Cosmetics category: BOTANIST Botanical cleansing ** Food department: Nogami "raw" bread ** Sweets Division: Lawson Baschi

2020 Awards

Announced on December 9, 2020. * Grand Prize :

Takeru Sato is a Japanese actor. He is best known for his leading role as Ryotaro Nogami in the '' Kamen Rider Den-O'' franchise, and as Himura Kenshin in the live-action ''Rurouni Kenshin'' film and its sequels. Satoh was born on 21 March 1989 in Iwatsu ...

* Person category ** Actor category:

** Actress category:

Mone Kamishiraishi is a Japanese actress and singer. She is the older sister of actress and singer Moka Kamishiraishi. Biography Born in Kagoshima, Her family lived in Mexico for three years due to her father's work. She can speak English and a little bit of Spa ...

** Owarai Tarento Division:

Fuwa-chan is a Japanese comedian and YouTube celebrity. Since August 2020, she has worked as a freelance entertainer. She is known for her unique way of speaking, which is considered frank by most Japanese. She is also known for her hair style, ...

** Athletes Division: Mikuru Asakura ** Model section: Suzu Yamanouchi ** Musician Division:

Official Hige Dandism , commonly abbreviated , is a Japanese pop band formed in Shimane, Japan in 2012 by Satoshi Fujihara (lead vocals, piano), Daisuke Ozasa (lead guitar, backing vocals), Makoto Narazaki (bass, saxophone, backing vocals) and Masaki Matsuura (drums, ...

** Idol category:

NiziU NiziU ( ja, ニジュー; ko, 니쥬), stylized as NIZIU, is a Japanese girl group formed by JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The group is composed of nine members: Mako, Rio, Maya, Riku, Ayaka, Mayuka, Rima, Miihi, and Nin ...

** Voice actor category:

Natsuki Hanae is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He is affiliated with Across Entertainment. He is best known for voicing Tanjiro Kamado in '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Ken Kaneki in '' Tokyo Ghoul'', Inaho Kaizuka in '' Aldnoah.Zero'', Takumi Al ...

** Writer category:

Hitonari Tsuji is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer, composer, and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the name Jinsei Tsuji, an alternative reading of the Japanese writing of his name. He debuted as a writer in 1989. His books and stories have been ...

** Special category: Souta Fujii * Culture category ** Anime Division:

** Movie section: '' Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train'' ** Game Division: Animal Crossing: New Horizons ( Nintendo ) ** Novel section: The Plague ( Albert Camus ) ** Drama section: Naoki Hanzawa ** Buzzwords category:

Zoom Zoom may refer to: Technology Computing * Zoom (software), videoconferencing application * Page zooming, the ability to magnify or shrink a portion of a page on a computer display * Zooming user interface, a graphical interface allowing for image ...

* Product category ** Beverages: Discerning Lemon Sour Lemon Hall ( Coca-Cola Japan ) ** Back- order department: Shiroi Koibito ( Ishiya Co. , Ltd. ) ** Home Appliances Division: Nintendo Switch ** Car Division: Yaris Cross ( Toyota ) ** Cosmetics Division: V3 Foundation ** Food sector: Neko Neko bread ** Sweets category: misdo meets PIERRE HERME

References

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External links

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