is the sixth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter 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 1979.

The album contains the cover versions of the songs Nakajima composed for other singers, including five top-40 hit singles—"Abayo" sung by Naoko Ken

Naoko Ken

is a Japanese singer and actress. She is well-known for her comedy roles featuring idiosyncratic looks, and a string of successful torch songs that gained popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s.- Biography :...

 (topped the chart in 1976), "Shiawase Shibai" and "Oikakete Yokohama" recorded by Junko Sakurada

Junko Sakurada

is a Japanese singer and actress. She was part of a music trio in 1973, which included Momoe Yamaguchi and Masako Mori. Sakurada then became successful in a solo music career. In 1979 Sakurada appeared in a film made by the production company Toho, and became popular as an actress...

 (reached #3 and #11 on the chart from in 1977-78, respectively), "If I Could Take to the Sky" performed by Tokiko Kato (peaked at #14 in 1978), and "Ame..." by Rumiko Koyanagi (reached #25 in 1978). It also features a song "Rouge" which was initially issued as the title track on Naomi Chiaki

Naomi Chiaki

, is a Japanese singer and actress who worked from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.Chiaki made her debut as a singer in 1969, and released her breakthrough single "Yottsu no Onegai" in the following year. "Kassai", a song which has been commonly considered her signature song was released in 1972...

's album issued in 1977.　It was later widely recognized around the Asian countries, because of the cover version interpreted by Faye Wong

Faye Wong

Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing...

 on her album Coming Home

Coming Home (Faye Wong album)

Coming Home is an album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong. It was released on her return to Hong Kong in 1992 after her year long stay in New York City.Wong had issued her first three official albums under the stage name Shirley Wong...

in 1992.

Okaerinasai peaked at #2 on the Japanese Oricon LP chart and became one of her most commercially successful album, selling in excess of 530,000 copies while it was entering there.

Track listing

All songs composed by Miyuki Nakajima, except the lyrics of "Yomaigoto" written by Yu Aku

Yu Aku

, , was a Japanese lyricist, poet, novelist.He was famous for thousands of his lyrics he contributed to many recording artists since 1967. Mainly during the 1970s, more than 20 of them reached the number-one on the Japanese Oricon chart, and 7 singles sold more than a million copies...

Side one

Side two

Personnel

• Miyuki Nakajima - Lead vocal, acoustic guitar
• Toshiaki Usui - Acoustic guitar
• Hiromi Yasuda - Acoustic guitar
• Nobuo Tsunetomi - Acoustic guitar
• Yasushi Suehara - Acoustic guitar
• Chūei Yoshikawa - Acoustic guitar
• Shigeru Suzuki - Electric guitar
• Kimio Mizutani - Electric guitar
• Munemitsu Noguchi - Steel guitar
• Tsugotoshi Gotō - Electric bass
• Rei Ohara - Electric bass
• Shigehiro Takahashi - Electric bass
• Shigeaki Takebe - Electric bass
• Kazumi Okayama - Drums
  Drum kit
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• Eiji Shimamura - Drums
• Yūichi Togashiki - Drums
• Tatsuo Hayashi - Drums
• Nobu Saitō - Percussion
• Yasukazu Satō - Percussion
• Jun Sato - Keyboards
• Hiroshi Shibui - Keyboards
• Makiko Tashiro - Keyboards
• Hidetoshi Yamada - Keyboards
• Jake H. Conception - Saxophone
  Saxophone
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• Shin Kazuhara - Trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Eiji Arai - Trombone
  Trombone
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• Sumio Okada - Trombone
• Yasuo Hirauchi - Trombone
• Masao Suzuki - Clarinet
  Clarinet
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• First Music - Strings
• Isao Kaneyama - Marimba
  Marimba
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• Fumihiko Kazama - Midget Accordion
• Keiji Azami - Dulcimer
• Osamu Tozuka - Chorus
• Hiroshi Narumi - Chorus

Production

• Designer: Hirofumi Arai
• Disk Promoter: Yoshiki Ishikawa
• Recording Director: Yoshio Okujima
• Recording & Mixing Engineer: Yoshihiko Kaminari, Koji Sakakibara, Shoya Mizutani
• Manager: Hiroshi Kojima
• Assistant Promotion Manager: Kunio Kaneko
• Disk Co-ordinator: Yuzo Watanabe
• Costume Designer: Mihoko Kiyokawa
• Art Director: Jin Tamura
• Remixing & Mastering Engineer: Kinji Yoshino
• General Producer: Genichi Kawakami
• Special Thanks to Sailor Shinohara

Chart positions

Year	Country	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1979-80	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)	2	33	533,000
		Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)	3	32