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Originally Posted by immel
Translation of the text in the first post:
NHK's annual end-of-the-year singing competition, the Kouhaku Utagassen, will, as usual, take place on December 31st, from 7:20 to 11:45pm. The theme this year is Love・Family~Songs That Crosses Generations. The hosts of the evening has been decided as Nakama Yukie (who also hosted last year) for the Red Team and Nakai Masahiro of SMAP for the White Team. They will be joined by announcers Miyake Tamio and Kurosaki Megumi, who will be the head hosts of the event.
The Kouhaku Utagassen has become a part of Japanese New Year tradition since it started, though recent years has seen the viewership of the show in steady decline. It'll be up to the staffs to come up with more topicality in the night's events to save the show.
The list of performers and the songs they will be performing have not yet been announced.
More info to come.
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That must mean the picture in the first post is already confirmed artists. Which also means that the other artists that appeared last year that aren't on the list (Ito Yuna, Suzuki Ami, Shimatani Hitomi) are probably checking their schedules and drafting a song list for the people at NHK to choose from.