The 57th Annual NHK Kouhaku

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We all know it's coming. This was posted at Tokyo-Nights by xxhiroxx (link)

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.

So, what song do you think Ayu will sing this year? I think she'll probably sing JEWEL...she seems to like it, but who knows.