is the 18th studio album

Album

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 by Japanese

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 singer-songwriter

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 Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, released in June 1990. The album includes remix version of "Ashita", a top-20 charting smash hit single released in 1989 and certified gold by the RIAJ. After two months from release of the album, "with" was released as a single. The song was featured in the 1991 film My Sons

My Sons

is a 1991 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Synopsis:The children of old-fashioned patriarch of a family in Iwate Province gather to observe the first anniversary of their mother's death. Tetsuya, working as a bartender in Tokyo,...

, directed by Yoji Yamada

Yoji Yamada

is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy ....

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Mixing of Yoru o Yuke was taken at The Manor Studio

The Manor Studio

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 in the United Kingdom. Part of the album was recorded additionally at the studio in Britain, and some of the songs featured saxophone played by Mel Collins.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

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1. "" – 5:37
2. "" – 5:30
3. "" – 4:41
4. "" [album mix] – 5:30
5. "" – 6:33
6. "" – 4:19
7. "" – 6:43
8. "" – 6:27
9. "" – 5:04
10. "with" – 5:39

Personnel

• Jun Aoyama - drums
  Drum kit
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• Hideo Yamaki - drums
• Tōru Hasebe - drums
• Toshiaki Usui - acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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• Chūei Yoshikawa - acoustic guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
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  , mandola
  Mandola
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• Tsuyoshi Kon - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Masaki Matsubara - electric guitar, gut guitar
• Takayuki Hijikata - electric guitar
• Yasuo Tomikura - bass guitar
• Hideki Matsubara - bass guitar
• Chiharu Mikuzuki - bass guitar, fretless bass, stickbass
• Yasuharu Nakanishi - keyboards
• Ryoichi Kuniyoshi - keyboards
• Nobuo Kurata - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , computer programming
• Keishi Urata - computer programming
• Ichizo Seo - computer programming, keyboards, backup vocals
• Kazuyo Sugimoto - backup vocals
• Yuiko Tsubokura - backup vocals
• Mel Collins
  Mel Collins
  Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...
  
   - saxophone
  Saxophone
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• Toshihiko Furumura - saxophone

Production

• Producer and Arranger: Ichizo Seo
• Composer, Lyricist, Producer and Performer: Miyuki Nakajima
• Recording Engineer - Jun Amatatu, Takanobu Ichikawa, Chizuru Yamada, Katsuyoshi Yahagi, Kenji Matsunaga, Kengo Kato, Yoshiyuki Yokoyama, Calum Rees
• Mixer - Felix Kendall (at the Manor Studio, Oxfford, UK)
• Mastering Engineer - Bunt Stafford Clark (at the Town House Studio, London)
• Photographer and Art Director: Jin Tamura
• Designer: Hirofumi Arai
• Costume: Kazumi Yamase
• Hair and Makeup - Harumi Kohno
• A&R: Yūzō Watanabe, Kazuhiro Nagaoka
• Disc Promotor: Yoshio Kan, Hiroshi Akao
• Music Coordinator - Takashi Kimura, Fumio Miyata
• Artist Management: Kohji Suzuki
• General Management: Takahiro Uno
• Management Desk: Atsuko Hayashi, Tomoko Takaya
• DAD - Genichi Kawakami
  Genichi Kawakami
  was the president of the Yamaha Corporation from 1950 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 1983. He is often credited with the international success of Yamaha and was also widely influential as a community music educator....
  
  
• Thank to the Manor Studio Staff

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales	RIAJ Certification
1990	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)	3	11	170,000+	Gold