Kind of Love is the second, and first full length album, by Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese rock band

Rock Band

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 Mr. Children

Mr. Children

, commonly called , is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the in the mid 1990s in Japan...

 released on December 1, 1992.

The album debuted on the Japanese Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 music charts at #13 and sold 1,179,780 copies during its run on the chart. The album contains only one single released on December 1, 1992, titled . The first track on the album, , was also used as the theme song to Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese animation . Kind of Love also marks the debut of drummer Hideya Suzuki as one of the vocalist for the album and the use of U.S productions for an album.

Track listing

All songs arranged by Takeshi Kobayashi and Mr.Children

Personnel

• Kazutoshi Sakurai
  Kazutoshi Sakurai
  is a Japanese musician and entrepreneur. He composes and writes almost all of the songs for his band Mr. Children, in addition to writing lyrics and singing for his solo project group Bank Band. In 2006, Sakurai ranked #8 in HMV's "Top 30 Best Japanese Singers of All Time" and in 2007 was voted #4...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Kenichi Tahara – guitar
• Keisuke Nakagawa – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Hideya Suzuki – 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 ....
  
  , vocals
• Takuo Yamamoto - baritone
  Baritone
  Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...
  
  , soprano
  Soprano
  A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
  
  , tenor sax
• Yoichi Murata - trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Toshio Araki - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  , flugelhorn
• Hirokazu Ogura - 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...
  
  
• Shozo Kimura - acoustic guitar
• Shoko Suzuki - chorus
  Choir
  A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
  
  
• Tomoko - chorus
• Hijiri Kuwano Group - strings

Production

Production credits for album:

• Producer - Takeshi Kobyashi
• Executive producer - Takamitsu Ide, Mitsunori Kadoike
• Recording and Mixing engineering - Kunihiko Imai, Hiroshi Hiranuma, and Tsuyoshi Inoue
• A&R producer - Koichi Inaba
• Directed - Makoto Nakanishi
• Computer programming - Ken Matsumoto
• Recording - Sound Sky Studio, Power House, Victor Studio, and more
• Mixed at - West Side Studio, Studio Somewhere
• Assistant engineering - Hiroshi Tanigawa, Hideyuki Arima, Kenichi Hayashi, Tatsuya Kawakami, and Masatatsu Tsubuki
• Mastering - Masterdisk
• Mastering engineer - Bob Lubwing
• U.S production supervision - Hero Associates Inc.
• Recording co-coordination - Hiroe Takeshima
• Promotion - Naoki Imoto
• Sales promotion - Masayuki Nakagawa
• Artist management - Isao Tanuma and Kazushiro Miura
• Desk management - Tomoko Okada
• Production management - Tetsuhiko /nono
• Production co-ordination - Harumi Oshima
• P.R management - Chikane Kumagai
• Art Director - Mitsuo Shindo
• Designer - Kumiko Tezuka
• Photographer - Hiroyuki Ishiee
• Stylist - Hiroko Umeyama
• Hair and make-up - Akemi Nakano

Chart positions

Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	13	159	1,179,780

Certification

Country	Organization	Certification	Shipments
Japan	RIAJ	Million	1,000,000+