is the 16th studio album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 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 November 1988.

The album includes "Namida", her own rendition of a song Nakajima originally wrote for Kiyoshi Maekawa

Kiyoshi Maekawa

is a Japanese singer and tarento.He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta"...

. The song released as a single before the album came out was the first material which was co-produced by Ichizo Seo, whom has been her long-term collaborator since then.

The album has commercially failed, although it debuted at the number-one on the Oricon Chart for the first time in 3 years.

Track listing

• All songs written 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...
  
  .

1. "" – 4:22
2. "" – 4:40
3. "Megami" – 4:53
4. "" – 4:59
5. "" – 3:59
6. "" – 4:10
7. "" – 6:10
8. " -Made in Tears" – 5:08
9. "" – 6:33

Personnel

• Miyuki Nakajima - Lead and backing vocals
• Ichizo Seo - keyboards, backing vocals, computer programming
• Tsuyoshi Kon - electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Hideo Saitō - electric guitar
• Chuei Yoshikawa - acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  
• Chiharu Mikuzuki - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Kenji Takamizu - bass guitar
• Yasuo Tomikura - bass guitar
• Nobuo Kurata - keyboards
• Yasuharu Nakanishi - keyboards
• Ken Shima - keyboards
• Elton Nagata - keyboards
• Tatsuhiko Mori - computer programming
• Keishi Urata - computer programming
• Nobuhiko Nakayama- computer programming
• Toshihiko Furumura - tenor sax
• Kazuyo Sugimoto - backing vocals
• Jun Aoyama - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Hideo Yamaki - drums
• Toru Hasebe - drums
• Fairlight CMI
  Fairlight CMI
  The Fairlight CMI is a digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia...
  
  , TR-707 - programming drums
• Tomota Group - strings
• Masatsugu Shinozaki - electric violin

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales	RIAJ Certification
1988	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	1	10	137,000+	Gold