Award winners

• Japan Record Award:
  • Glay
    Glay
    Glay is a rock/pop band from Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan formed by guitarist Takuro and vocalist Teru in high school in 1988. Glay primarily composes songs in the rock and pop genres, but they have also composed songs using elements of different styles such as reggae and gospel...
    
     for "Winter,again"
• Best Vocalist:
  • Hiromi Go
    Hiromi Go
    is a Japanese singer, part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. His real name is .In the 1970s, he was called "New Big Three" with Goro Noguchi and Hideki Saijo. He belonged to Johnny & Associates, but later left the agency...
    
    
• Best New Artist:
  • Amika Hattan
• Best Album:
  • Hikaru Utada for "First Love"
• Special Award:
  • Okasan to Issho for "Dango 3 Kyodai
    Dango 3 Kyodai
    is a Japanese song released on March 3, 1999. The song caused a social phenomenon in Japan. On the Japanese Oricon weekly single charts, it debuted at the number-one position with the sales of over one million copies. It was considered that the song might surpass the record of "Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun"....
    
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