Award winners

• Japan Record Award:
  • Keisuke Kuwata
    Keisuke Kuwata
    has gained fame as a Japanese multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and frontman for the Southern All-Stars, as well as his own solo band, the Kuwata band. He has also done significant amount of scoring music for films. He went to Aoyama Gakuin University....
    
     (Songwriter, Composer and producer) & Southern All Stars
    Southern All Stars
    , also known by the abbreviations or SAS, is a Japanese pop/rock band that formed in the mid 1970s.The band is composed of Keisuke Kuwata , Yuko Hara , Kazuyuki Sekiguchi , Hiroshi Matsuda and Hideyuki "Kegani" Nozawa...
    
     for "Tsunami
    Tsunami (Southern All Stars song)
    "Tsunami" is a song by the Southern All Stars, released as their forty-fourth single on January 26, 2000.-Overview:The song was the first number-one single for Southern All Stars since the 1996 single Ai no Kotodama on the Oricon weekly charts. The band used the style of hard rock on the previous...
    
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• Best Vocalist:
  • Kaori Kozai
• Best New Artist:
  • Kiyoshi Hikawa
    Kiyoshi Hikawa
    is a Japanese enka singer who was born on September 6, 1977 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. His real name is and he is known as "The Prince of Enka" due to his young age and popularity...
    
    
• Best Album:
  • Ayumi Hamasaki
    Ayumi Hamasaki
    is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, model, lyricist, and actress. Also called "Ayu" by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to...
    
     for "Duty
    Duty (album)
    -Credits:#"Starting Over" – 1:36Music: Ken HaradaArrangement: Ken HaradaProgramming: Masayuki Kumahara#"Duty" – 5:15Words: Ayumi HamasakiMusic: Ken HaradaArrangement: Naoto Suzuki & Ken HaradaKeyboards: Naoto SuzukiGuitar: Naoki HayashibeB.G...
    
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• Special Award:
  • Namie Amuro
    Namie Amuro
    is a Japanese R&B and pop singer, entertainer, and former actress who at the height of her popularity was referred to as the "Teen Queen" and the title "Queen of Japanese Pop Music". Born in Naha, Okinawa, Amuro debuted at the age of 14 as an idol in the girl group Super Monkey's...
    
    
  • Morning Musume
    Morning Musume
    , sometimes referred to as is a Japanese idol girl group, whose act generally revolves around singing and dancing to upbeat melodies. They are the lead group of Hello! Project, which is managed and produced by Tsunku, who composes nearly all the lyrics and melodies of their songs...