is a 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...

 who plays guitar-driven blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, and pop music, though he has also recorded piano

Piano

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 ballads. Though he primarily plays the guitar, he also has played the drums, piano, percussion, saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

, and glockenspiel

Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...

 on some albums.

He released his second album in 1997

1997 in music

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, which contained his breakout and most famous single "One More Time, One More Chance

One More Time, One More Chance

"One More Time, One More Chance" is a single by Japanese singer Masayoshi Yamazaki that was released on January 22, 1997 on the Polydor Japan label. It peaked on the Oricon weekly singles chart at No. 18 and charted for 24 weeks. It is used as the ending theme song for the 2007 film 5 Centimeters...

". This song was used in Makoto Shinkai

Makoto Shinkai

, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese anime director, animator, and voice actor. A native of the Koumi Nagano Prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature at Chuo University. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle...

's anime film 5 Centimeters Per Second. In recent years, he has been releasing live albums and greatest hits compilations.

Singles

• Tsukiakari ni Terasarete (1995)
• Chuka Ryori (1996)
• Serori (1996)
• One more time, One more chance (1997)
• Adrenaline (1997)
• Furimukanai (1997)
• Mizu no Nai Suisou (1998)
• Boku ha Koko ni Iru (1998)
• Passage (1999)
• Yawarakai Tsuki (2000)
• Ashita no Kaze (2000)
• Plastic Soul (2001)
• Shinpakusu (2002)
• Zenbu Kimi datta (2003)
• Mikansei (2003)
• Boku to Furyo to Koutei de (2003)
• Bokura ha Shizuka ni Kieteiku (2004)
• Biidama Bouenkyou (2004)
• Menuetto (2005)
• 8-gatsu no Christmas (2005)
• Angel-A (2006)
• One more time, One more chance (5 Centimeters Per Second Special Edition) (2007)
• Mayonaka no Boon Boon (2008)
• Shinkaigyo (2008)
• Heart of Winter (2008)
• Haru mo Arashi mo (2009)
• HOBO Walking (2010)
• Hanabi (2010)

Studio Albums

• Allergy no tokkoyaku (Specific for allergy) (1996)
• HOME (1997)
• domino (1998)
• SHEEP (2000)
• transition (2001)
• Atelier (2003)
• ADDRESS (2006)
• IN MY HOUSE (2009)
• HOBO'S MUSIC (2010)

Live Albums

• One Knight Stands (2000)
• Transit Time (2002)
• With Strings (Collaborated with Takayuki Hattori and Rush Strings, 2006)

Compilation Albums

• Blue Period (A-Side single collecttion, 2005)
• Out of the Blue (B-Side single collection, 2005)

External links

• Official Site — Official site by his management office, "Office Augusta"
• Artist Page in Universal Music Japan