The , referred to from hereon as "Kōhaku", was aired on December 31, 2008 from
NHK Hall
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Japan
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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.
Hosts
*Red team host:
Yukie Nakama
is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol.
Biography
She was born in Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan, into a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings.
At the start of her career she was a gravure idol and singer (her debut single "Moonli ...
*White team host:
Masahiro Nakai
*Mediators:
Kazuya Matsumoto and
Fumie Ono
*Radio broadcasting spot person:
Yasuhirio Yamada and
Aika Kanda
Performers
The singers, announced on November 25, 2008, are ordered below according to the
gojūon
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Results
The winners were the shirogumi, the white team, making it their 4th consecutive win. The white team now leads with 31 wins over the red team with 28 wins. The table below documents the voting and points distribution:
See also
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Kōhaku Uta Gassen
, more commonly known simply as ''Kōhaku'', is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK net ...
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50th Japan Record Awards
The 50th Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the New National Theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo, on December 30, 2008, starting at 6:30PM JST. The primary ceremonies were televised in Japan on TBS.
Performers
*Wink
*Kome Kome Club
* Aki Yashiro
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References
NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen events
NHK
, also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee.
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Masahiro Nakai
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