The , referred to from here on as "Kōhaku," aired on December 31, 2007, on

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. The music show on New Year's Eve is broadcast on both television and radio, and divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. Air time was from 19:20 to 23:45 (with an interruption from 21:25 to 21:30 for news). All times are JST.

Chairpersons

*Red team host: Masahiro Nakai *White team host: Tsurube Shōfukutei *Mediators: Kazuya Matsumoto and Miki Sumiyoshi *Radio announcers: Sen Odagiri and Ai Tsukahara

Performance listing

Results

The winners were the shirogumi, the white team, which was revealed by illuminating the darkened

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in blue-white light. Viewing percentages in the

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were 32.8% for the first section and 39.5% for the second.

Judges

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* Hideki Okajima *

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* Mariko Bando * Tomonori Jinnai

External links

58th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen performer and song list in Japanese

References

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K Masahiro Nakai