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• • "I Want to Meet You Once Again" was the ending theme for the 1992 NTV
    Nippon Television
    is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...
    
     drama
    Japanese television drama
    , also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...
    
     "Super TV: Jōhō Saizensen".
  • "Chasing Down the Wind" was the image song for the 1994 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• Haven't Yet Seen the Love Poem to You / Power for Love
  まだ見ぬ君への愛の詩／愛こそ力 ～Power for Love～ (Mada Minu Kimi he no Ai no Shi / Ai koso Chikara ~Power for Love~) (May 14, 1994)
  • "Haven't Yet Seen the Love Poem to You" was the image song for the 1994 Mitsuya Cider commercial campaign.
  • "Power for Love" was the ending theme for the 1994 Fuji network
    Fuji Television
    is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
    
     show "Time Angle".
• Complex Blue: Except for the Love, I'm Too Sad / Theme of Romance / Theme of Solitude
  COMPLEX BLUE －愛だけ哀しすぎて－/ THEME OF ROMANCE / THEME OF SOLITUDE (Complex Blue -Ai dake Kanashisugite / Theme of Romance / Theme of Solitude) (September 20, 1994)
  • "Complex Blue: Except for the Love, I'm Too Sad" was the theme song for the 1994 Fuji network
    Fuji Television
    is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
    
     video series "Complex Blue".
• The Adventurers / El Dorado
  冒険者たち／El Dorado (Bōkensha-tachi / El Dorado) (October 20, 1994)
  • "The Adventurers" was the theme song for the 1994 NHK network
    NHK
    NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
    
     anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
    
     series "Montana Jones
    Montana Jones
    is a comedy adventure anime television series which was broadcast in Japan on NHK from April 2, 1994 through April 8, 1995. Studio Junio and REVER created the 52 episode series as a joint production. Montana Jones has a similar atmosphere to Sherlock Hound, a joint of Rever and TMS Entertainment...
    
    ".
• El Dorado / The Adventure Begins
  エルドラド／The Adventure Begins (Eru Dorado / The Adventure Begins) (October 20, 1994)
  • "El Dorado" was the ending theme for the 1994 NHK network
    NHK
    NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
    
     anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
    
     series "Montana Jones
    Montana Jones
    is a comedy adventure anime television series which was broadcast in Japan on NHK from April 2, 1994 through April 8, 1995. Studio Junio and REVER created the 52 episode series as a joint production. Montana Jones has a similar atmosphere to Sherlock Hound, a joint of Rever and TMS Entertainment...
    
    ".
• Love Never Dies / Glory Days (January 29, 1996)
  • "Love Never Dies" was the theme song for the 1996 NTV
    Nippon Television
    is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...
    
     drama
    Japanese television drama
    , also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...
    
     "Kiseki no Romance".
  • "Glory Days" was the image song for the 1996 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• The Shape of Love: Send My Heart / Everybody Needs Love Generation
  倖せのかたち ～Send My Heart～／EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE GENERATION－Live at YOKOHAMA RED BRICKS, 10 August 1996－ (Shiawase no Katachi ~Send My Heart~ / Everybody Needs Love Generation) (October 16, 1996)
  • "The Shape of Love: Send My Heart" was the song for the 1996 Tōhō Seimei commercial campaign.
• Brave Love: Galaxy Express 999 / Beyond the Win (February 25, 1998)
  • "Brave Love: Galaxy Express 999" was the theme song for the 1998 Toei
    Toei Animation
    Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...
    
     anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
    
     movie "Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy
    Galaxy Express 999
    is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality.The manga won the...
    
    ".
  • "Beyond the Win" was the image song for the 1998 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• The Bell of Hope as the Morning Breaks / Beginning of the Time
  希望の鐘が鳴る朝に／Beginning of the Time (Kibō no Kane ga Naru Asa ni / Beginning of the Time) (February 3, 1999)
  • "The Bell of Hope as the Morning Breaks" was the theme song for the 1999 TBS network
    Tokyo Broadcasting System
    , TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....
    
     Toshiba
    Toshiba
    is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
    
     Nichiyō Gekijō movie "Salaryman Kintarō".
  • "Beginning of the Time" was the image song for the 1999 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• Justice for True Love / A.D. 1999 (August 18, 1999)
  • "Justice for True Love" was the theme song for the 1999 anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
    
     movie "Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo 2: Satsuriku no Deep Blue
    Kindaichi Case Files
    is a serialized Japanese mystery manga series based on the crime solving adventures of a high school student, Hajime Kindaichi, the supposed grandson of the famous private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. They are written by Yōzaburō Kanari or Seimaru Amagi and illustrated by Fumiya Satō...
    
    ".

2000s

• Never Fade / Wake Up: Goodbye 20th Century Boy / In Order to Become Free
  NEVER FADE／Wake Up ～Goodbye 20th century boy／自由になるために (Never Fade / Wake Up ~Goodbye 20th Century Boy~ / Jiyū ni Naru Tame ni) (December 6, 2000)
  • "Never Fade" was the ending theme for the TV Asahi
    TV Asahi
    , also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....
    
     program "T x 2Show".
  • "Wake Up: Goodby 20th Century Boy" was the ending theme for the Yomiuri TV
    Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
    is a TV station joining Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System in Osaka Business Park, Osaka, Japan founded as "" on February 13, 1958...
    
    /NTV
    Nippon Television
    is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...
    
     program "Wake Up".
  • "In Order to Become Free" was the image song for the 2000 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• Juliet / Change the Wind (August 22, 2001)
  • "Juliet" was the theme song for the TV Asahi
    TV Asahi
    , also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....
    
     program "Sushi Azarashi" and the ending theme for the TV Asahi
    TV Asahi
    , also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....
    
     program "T x 2Show".
  • "Change the Wind" was the image song for the 2001 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• The Sun Won't Set / World of Chaos
  太陽は沈まない／Chaosの世界 (Taiyō ha Shizumanai / Chaos no Sekai) (August 14, 2002)
  • "The Sun Won't Set" was the theme song for the Fuji network
    Fuji Television
    is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
    
     drama
    Japanese television drama
    , also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...
    
     "Shomuni FINAL
    Shomuni
    is a comedic TV drama serial based on the Japanese manga of the same name by , though much of the details have departed from the comic...
    
    ".
  • "World of Chaos" was the image song for the 2002 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• Dandelion Verse / Swinging Generation 2003
  タンポポの詩／SWINGING GENERATION 2003 (Tanpopo no Uta / Swinging Generation 2003) (August 13, 2003)
  • "Dandelion Verse" was the ending theme for the TV Asahi
    TV Asahi
    , also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....
    
     anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
    
     "Doraemon
    Doraemon
    is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise...
    
    ".
• Bridge of Hope / Eyeing the Morning Star / The Bell of Hope as the Morning Breaks: 2004 Mix Version
  希望の橋／夜明けの星を目指して／希望の鐘が鳴る朝に ～2004 mix version～ (Kibō no Hashi / Yoake no Hoshi wo Mezashite / Kibō no Kane ga Naru Asa ni) (February 18, 2004)
  • "Bridge of Hope" was the theme song for the TBS network
    Tokyo Broadcasting System
    , TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....
    
     drama
    Japanese television drama
    , also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...
    
     "Salaryman Kintarō 4".
  • "Eyeing the Morning Star" was the image song for the 2004 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• 10 Billion Love Stories / Closer to ZeRo! / The Time of Vanishing Loneliness '05
  100億のLove Story／ZeRoになれ！／悲しみが消える時'05 (100 Oku no Love Story / ZeRo ni Nare! / Kanashimi ga Kieru Toki '05) (2005-03-17)
  • "10 Billion Love Stories" was the theme song for the TBS network
    Tokyo Broadcasting System
    , TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....
    
     original movie "Kochira Hon'ike Gamisho 5."
  • "Closer to ZeRo!" was the image song for the 2005 Osaka International Ladies Marathon.
• Innocent Love / One (October 24, 2006)
  • "Innocent Love" was the theme to the drama "Mikon Roku Shimai."
• Dear My Life
  (April 4, 2007)
  • The "Dear My Life" single was released in three different versions, each with a different bonus track.
  • "Type A" had "Dear My Life" Acoustic Guitar Instrumental as the bonus track.
  • "Type B" had "Yume Yo Isoge" (夢よ急げ) Acoustic Guitar Instrumental as the bonus track.
  • "Type C" had "'Dear My Life' Instrumental with Electric Guitar Melody."
• Dedicate My Love (2009)
  • Konno Ai Wo Sasagete" was the theme song of the anime movie Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen
  • The "Konno Ai Wo Sasagete" single is released in three versions, each with a different bonus track.
    • "Type A" had "Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2009" Rock Version as the bonus track.
    • "Type B" had "Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2009 with Symphonic Orchestra" as the bonus track.
    • "Type C" had "Shining Run (Kagayaku Michi Ni Mukatte)" as the bonus track.