The duo releases songs more quickly and has already announced its next single..
Kobukuro, the A-side will come with two B-sides entitled FREEDOM TRAIN and Kimi to Itai no ni. Nothing has been revealed as for a possible tie-in, but the duo will surely have an interesting one, as usual.The annual MTV ceremony awarding prizes to the best music videos of the year was held on Saturday May 30 at the Saitama Super Arena. Namie Amuro and Coldplay, who were both nominee three times, were the center of attention. But what are the results?.
Here is the list of the winners for the MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2009 (the winner's name is in bold):
■ Best Male Video
o Motohiro Hata - FOREVER SONG
o KANYE WEST - HEARTLESS
+ KREVA - Akasatanahamayarawawon
o Ne-Yo - Closer
o USHER - Love in This Club feat. YOUNG JEEZY
■ Best Female Video
+ Namie Amuro - NEW LOOK
o Thelma Aoyama - Nando mo
o BEYONCE - If I Were a Boy
o Britney Spears - WOMANIZER
o Hikaru Utada - Prisoner Of Love
■ Best Group Video
+ EXILE - Ti Amo (Chapter2)
o FRANZ FERDINAND - Ulysses
o THE KILLERS - Human
o Shounannokaze - Koi Shigure
o Touhoushinki - MIROTIC
■ Best New Artist Video
o Duffy - Mercy
o Miho Fukuhara - CHANGE
o KATY PERRY - I Kissed a Girl
o GIRL NEXT DOOR - Guuzen no Kakuritsu
+ KIMAGUREN - LIFE
■ Best Video Of The Year
o Namie Amuro - NEW LOOK
o Britney Spears - Womanizer
o COLDPLAY - Viva La Vida
+ EXILE - Ti Amo (Chapter2)
o SOUTHERN ALL STARS - I AM YOUR SINGER
■ Best Rock Video
o 9mm Parabellum Bullet - Living Dying Message
o ACIDMAN - I STAND FREE
o FALL OUT BOY - I don't care
o FRANZ FERDINAND - Ulysses
+ MAXIMUM THE HORMONE - Tsume Tsume Tsume
■ Best Pop Video
o Ikimono-gakari - Kimagure ROMANTIC
+ KATY PERRY - I Kissed a Girl
o LILY ALLEN - The Fear
o Perfume - Dream Fighter
o RIP SLYME - Taiyou to Bikini
■ Best R&B Video
o AKON - Right Now (NaNaNa)
+ Namie Amuro - Sexy Girl
o JUJU feat. Spontania - Sunao ni Naretara
o Miliyah Katou - 19 Memories
o Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
■ Best Hip Hop Video
o KANYE WEST - Heartless
o KREVA - Akasatanahamayarawawon
o LIL WAYNE - Lollipop feat.STATIC
+ TERIYAKI BOYZ® - ZOCK ON! feat.Pharrell & Busta Rhymes
o TI - Live Your Life feat. RIHANNA
■ Best Reggae Video
+ HAN-KUN - HOTTER THAN HOT
o KARDINAL OFFISHALL - Dangerous feat. AKON
o MIGHTY JAM ROCK - U.P.STAR
o NATTY - Cold Town
o RYO the SKYWALKER - EVER GREEN
■ Best Dance Video
o THE BPA - Toe Jam feat. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL
o DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP - Thou Shalt Always Kill
o KRAAK & SMAAK - Squeeze Me feat. BEN WESTBEECH
+ TOWA TEI - Mind Wall feat. Miho Hatori
o UKAWANIMATION! - Wakusei no Portrait 5 Oku Man Gaso
■ Best Video from a Film
o AI - Okuribito
o JACK WHITE & ALICIA KEYS - Another Way to Die
o MADONNA - 4 Minutes feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & TIMBALAND
o monobright - Ano Toumeikan to Shounen
+ REMIOROMEN - Yume no Tsubomi
■ Best Collaboration Video
o MADONNA - 4 Minutes feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & TIMBALAND
+ NELLY and FERGIE - Party People
o Kaela Kimura + Scha Dara Parr - Hey! Hey! Alright
o TI - Live Your Life feat. RIHANNA
o Anna Tsuchiya feat.AI - Crazy World
■ Best album of the year
o ayaka - Okaeri / SING TO THE SKY
o COLDPLAY - Viva La Vida / VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS
+ Mr.Children - ESORA / SUPERMARKET FANTASY
o Ne-Yo - Closer / YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN
o Hikaru Utada - HEART STATION / HEART STATION
■ Best Karaoke! Song
o Aqua Timez - Niji
o COLDPLAY - Viva La Vida
o FUNKY MONKEY BABYS - Kibou no Uta
+ KIMAGUREN - LIFE
o MARIAH CAREY - TOUCH MY BODY
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Even if we already knew it, the singer's official site only announced it on May 29th..
Since the beginning of March, Minna Sora no Shita has been used in the commercial videos of Kao's ASIENCE: the song will finally be released as a single on July 8th. For those who like beautiful things, Kao put the CM online.
Now, this is an unexpected collaboration!
The death jazz group has planned two concerts in France as part of their European tour..
SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS is a jazz group and live attraction. As part of their Tour in Europe 2009 Summer, SOIL will do two concerts in France:Love, and possibly marriage, is in the air for popular model and talento Ebihara Yuri (29), according to today's issue of weekly magazine "Friday." The magazine published photos of her on a date with Ilmari (33) of the hip hop group Rip Slyme. Not only were they visiting the famous Aoshima Jinja shrine in her home prefecture of Miyazaki, known for its powers of bringing people together, but they were accompanied by Ebihara's family.
SMAP member Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (34) yesterday returned to work for the first time since his arrest for public indecency last month. He and the other four group members recorded an episode of the Fuji TV variety show "SMAPxSMAP," which will be aired June 1, and Kusanagi recorded a narration for today's edition of the music show "Bokura no Ongaku." This afternoon he returned to his regular slot on the live variety show "Waratte Iitomo." Wearing a somber black suit, he apologized to the host, comedian Tamori, the other regulars and the studio audience. After the show he gave a brief press conference where he again repeated his apologies and expressed thanks to everyone who supported him over the last few weeks. The speed of Kusanagi's return to work after such a big scandal is an indication of his commercial value, and he will appearing in his various commercial roles once again from next month.
We can say it like that, even if one of the songs will be out under the name DJ Lilly..
On July 22nd, DOUBLE will release a new single entitled Let it go, her first one since Nokoribi -eternal BED- in December 2007. There is no further information as for now, but Let it go is said to be "DOUBLE's first message song".Aira Mitsuki's return with a second album had already been announced not long ago on the Internet, and it has just been confirmed her album will be out on July 22nd. The limited edition of a remix album will come with it..
Aira Mitsuki's new album will be linked to featurings and remixes according to her producers. Oonishi Terukado once again helped Aira to compose her new songs, but there are also many artists whose music styles are completely different. Thus AYUSE KOZUE, 80kidz, kuchiroro, and Shige of the group THE SAMOS (that we could hear on immi's album) will collaborate with Aira as singers or mixers. But it is not over since other artists will be announced later.
Local heartthrob Kimura Takuya (36) joined Hollywood counterpart Josh Hartnett (30) and Korean star Lee Byung Hun (38) last night for the world premiere of "I Come With the Rain" in Tokyo. The actors were in Roppongi at the Tokyo Midtown complex for the event, also enjoyed by an invited audience of about 1,000. The movie is directed by Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung, who is currently working on the eagerly awaited movie version of Murakami Haruki's cult novel "Noruwei no Mori" (Norwegian Wood). It is scheduled to open in theaters on June 6. SMAP's Kimura talked about the tensions of filming in one of the more unsavory areas of the Philippines under the watchful eye of the local military. The movie was also filmed on location in Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
Official Website (japanese): http://icome.gyao.jp/
One of Japan's most promising young actors is to make his comeback, after a drug overdose threatened to derail his blossoming career. Yagira Yuya (19, photo) is to co-star with Sato Eriko in the "human drama" movie "Subete wa Umi ni Naru." Yagira plays a high school bookworm and the victim of bullying, who develops a relationship with a bookstore clerk (Sato). The movie is the directorial debut for Yamada Akane and is scheduled for release next spring. Yagira was an unknown when he grabbed international headlines by becoming the youngest ever Best Actor award winner at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival at the age of 14 (photo, left). His standout performance in Koreeda Hirokazu's "Daremo Shiranai" (Nobody Knows) put him firmly in the spotlight and he made several films over the next few years. But his last big-screen performance in "Houtai Club" in 2007 was followed by health problems and he was off the radar for a year. When he did make the news again, in September 2008, it was after an overdose of tranquilisers landed him in the hospital. Though he's been away from acting for two and a half years, he's been busy. He writes a blog and last November published his first novel, "Yamanai Ame."
Miliyah Kato will release her fourth original album on July 8th..
Entitled Ring, Miliyah's new album will include her latest singles: 20-CRY-, SAYONARA BABY and Love Forever, her duet with Shouta Shimizu. There will be 15 tracks overall.
Japanese contenders have come away empty handed from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Koreeda Hirokazu's "Kuki Ningyo" (Air Doll), about a video store clerk falling for an inflatable female doll, was shown in the Un Certain Regard category but failed to take the prize. There were no Japanese entries this year in the main competition category. But "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," a Spanish film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sergi Lopez (photo left) and Kikuchi Rinko (photo right), got a rapturous response from the audience when it was shown at the main theater on Saturday. Kikuchi, at Cannes for the first time since the release of "Babel" in 2006, was in tears as the film got a 5-minute standing ovation. "I was cool watching it part way through, but memories of the filming started coming back to me. It was a tough movie for me." Set in Tokyo, the movie features both English and Japanese dialog. Kikuchi plays a fish market worker who's an assassin on the side.
Group school food punishment, who will perform live at Japan Expo, announced their second single before they even released the first one!
school food punishment's first major single entitled futuristic imagination, will be out on May 27th and be used as the ending song for the anime Higashi no Eden.Of course, we owe the end of this long absence to Utada.
In the American Billboard 200 charts of May 30, This Is The One, Utada's album, which was released on May 12th in the United States, ranked 69th. It has been 23 years since a Japanese artist last ranked within the top 100 of the Billboard 200! LOUDNESS precisely ranked 64th with their album Lightning Strikes in 1986. Utada is the 7th Japanese artist of all time to enter the Billboard TOP100. Besides LOUDNESS, she comes after Kyuu Sakamoto, Isao Tomita, Tsutomu Yamashita, Yellow Magic Orchestra and Yôko Ono.New singer Maria, signed under Universal, is preparing the release of her second single which was announced barely two days after the release of her debut single..
Maria, a Jpop newcomer, that we introduced at the beginning of the month, has just announced the release of her new single.After two new singles, the fans of SPEED could hope for the group to stop living through their old hits in order to work on a new album. But it seems they will have to be patient a bit longer.
SPEED will release a best album entitled The Best ~Premium Re Tracks~ on August 5th 2009. It will contain their biggest hits (with the ones they released under Toys Factory even if they are now under avex). There will be two CDs.
Singer Ayumi Hamasaki (30) 7. April last month used the streets outside Shibuya '109' without permission for her book-release event, surrounding the Shibuya Station area in Tokyo.
At this event, the book "Ayu Diary of DEJIDEJI 2000-2009A" (Kodansha) was promoted. To commemorate the launch of the book in front of the "109" building, without notice, Hamasaki appeared in front of nearly 8,000 people and fans making a huge fuss.
Also, shortly before the book lanch event, Hamasaki visited TSUTAYA, HMV, Tower Records and other large CD stores in the area. In a surprise of this event, crazy energized fans were going to chase Hamasaki from shop to shop, which led to wild conditions in the streets.
According to Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Hamasaki did not get permission to use the roads in the area, and is now being investigated for violating the Road Traffic Law in the metropol. According to Japanese law, the penalty for this type of offenses are fines, and prison sentence.
Passages of buses and other modes of transport had to stop for a time. Fans tear down the stage, the stage and the sidewalk into the fence have been knocked down, and the scene was very chaotic and frightening for random bypassers, including several children.
As a result of this, Hamasaki was asked by reporters of the magazine "FRIDAY" in connection with the accusation. Sunday, she attended a event held in Tokyo, but was surprised by the prosecution against her. "I thought this issue was cleared in advance, while she smiles watching her staff. "In Shibuya? Heehaw. I should be allowed to move where I want, without having to submit an application specifically for this," she said, smiling.
In the latest celebrity drug trial, songwriter Sonoda Ryoji (33) was handed a suspended 18-month prison sentence today at the Tokyo District Court. It was Sonoda's first courtroom appearance and as he had admitted to the charges and shown suitable remorse, the judge wasted no time in handing down a sentence. Sonoda, who has written such hits as SMAP's "Kimi wo Suki ni Natte" and BoA's "No.1," was arrested in late April for use of "kakuseizai," or stimulant drugs. In the arrest report, the Azabu department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said that they had found him using a small amount of the drug at a hotel in the Shinjuku district of the capital on April 22. Sonoda said he had bought the drugs for ¥38,000 from a man he contacted via the Internet, and that he had been a user for about a year and a half.
It seems Spontania has definitely bet on colaborations to make headlines with their singles... After JUJU, Yuna Ito and Seiko Hashimoto, they will duet with Sotte Bosse.
Spontania will release their new single, which is still untitled, on July 29th 2009.The first three all released a best album not long ago, while the fourth ones have not even released their debut album!
In a press release published on their own websites, the brilliant green and singers Sowelu and Mai Hoshimura announced their contract with their management agency Ken-on ended.Three months after their union with J-Soul Brothers, the most trendy group in Japan will release a new single..
EXILE, who have been a 14-member group since their union with J-Soul Brothers and the release of THE MONSTER ~Someday~ in April, announced their 31st single would be out on July 22nd.Kumi Koda's 44th single will be out in three versions on July 8th 2009..
Entitled 3 SPLASH, her new single will contain three previously unreleased songs: Lick me (an uptempo track used as the theme song for SANYO "KODA KUMI FEVER LIVE IN HALL II"), ECTSASY (a dance song) and Hashire! (a song with a "rock" sound).
Former TV announcer Yorichika Mitsuko died yesterday of cancer-related heart failure at a Chiba Prefecture hospital. She was 53. She is regarded as the first announcer to become an "idol" in her own right, establishing a trend that still continues today. Yorichika joined NHK in 1978 and within two years was hosting the "Terebi FaSoLaTiDo" variety show with popular talentos such as Tamori. Real name Shikanai Kasareen Mitsuko, she was born in Hiroshima and learned piano and cello from an early age. Her father was a Japanese-American and she attended the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. With her exotic looks, fluent English and professional level musical skills she was regarded as Miss NHK and was the first female announcer to host a variety show on the network. In 1981 she left NHK for Fuji TV, a rare move at the time, and appeared as an assistant presenter on the "Ogawa Hiroshi Show." She later became a newscaster on the late-night "FNN News Report 11:30." She quit TV in 1984 after marrying Fuji TV vice president Shikanai Haruo, with whom she had two children. But her husband died in 1988 and she returned to TV in 1993. She made her acting debut in the 1996 NHK taiga historical drama "Hideyoshi." She was regularly involved in the classical music scene, as a concert planner, emcee and magazine writer. She was diagnosed with esophageal cancer two years ago, but chemotherapy treatment allowed her to continue working until as recently as last month. She was hospitalized a week ago and developed pneumonia last Friday.
Former Megadeth "charisma guitarist" Marty Friedman (46) has been unashamedly gushing about his love of the J-pop scene for a few years now. And today he's cashing in on the mismatch of heavy metal axeman and sugar sweet pop music with the release of "Tokyo Jukebox," an instrumental album of J-pop covers. Friedman performed a few guitar licks for reporters at the Tokyo Tower observation deck yesterday, including his take on Mr. Children's "Gift" and a little enka in the form of Ishikawa Sayuri's "Amagigoe." Friedman performed as a member of Megadeth during their most successful decade from 1990-2000. After moving to Japan, he joined X Japan guitarist Pata and Luna Sea drummer Shinya as a backing musician to rock singer Aikawa Nanase in 2005. A more unlikely pairing was with J-pop star Suzuki Ami on NHK's "Kohaku Uta Gassen" that New Year's Eve. He also performed last year on a mini-album of covers by African American enka singer Jero. In March, he performed Bach's Brandenburg Concerto with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. A famous Friedman anecdote is that he auditioned for legendary rockers Kiss, but was turned down because he was under six feet tall.
Some happy marriage news. Management for comedian Ishii Masanori (36, photo left) announced yesterday that he just got married. The diminutive funny man, who is just 158cm (5'2"), married a fellow Yokohama native (31) who is even smaller, at 147cm (4'10"). They chose yesterday, which was an auspicious taian day in the traditional Japanese calendar, to tie the knot. Ishii had the day off and went by himself to the local municipal office to register their marriage. The couple first met through a mutual friend in June 2005 and started dating the following November. Ishii rose to fame as the short half of comedy duo Ari to Kirigirisu, though these days he works more as an actor or solo talento. His comic partner Ishizuka Yoshiyuki (33) said, "It's his second marriage so I won't be giving him any congratulatory money!" Ishii was married to comedienne Kamemura Ai from 1998-2005.
Meanwhile, freelance announcer Yamada Rena (31, photo right) is engaged to a fellow Keio University graduate, it was revealed yesterday. Yamada was chosen as Miss Keio 1997 and later joined the TBS network, where she was the weather announcer on the "News23" show. She plans to continue working after her wedding, which the couple plan to hold at a Tokyo hotel in the near future.
No sooner had the artist released the double A-side single X/Last Melody than she announced the next one!.
The artist has not released anything solo since September 2008, which seems like ages considering her release pace since she is under Universal.
After being featured on an EP of her friend Kiyoshi Takakuwa aka Curly Giraffe (released on March 13th), Chara returns with a new single slated for a July 29 release. Entitled Breaking Hearts, the CD will include a cover of Yumi Matsutouya's Mamotte agetai as a B-side; Chihiro Onitsuka already recorded a very beautiful version of this song a few years ago. Chara's single will be out in two versions: CD-only and CD+DVD with a music video for the A-side.
Director Kawase Naomi (39) has taken first honors for Japan at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. On Thursday night she became the first Japanese director to be awarded the meritorious Carrosse d’Or prize, given as part of the festival's Directors' Fortnight. Before the ceremony, there was a screening of a re-edited version of Kawase’s 2000 feature "Hotaru." Though less well known than many of her male counterparts, Kawase has a very strong track record at Cannes. She won the Camera D'Or prize for best first feature film in 1997 with "Moe no Suzaku" and in 2007 she took the Grand Prix with "Mogari no Mori" (The Mourning Forest). Elsewhere in this year's festival, Koreeda Hirokazu's "Kuki Ningyo" (Air Doll) will be screened in the Un Certain Regard category. It's about a video store clerk falling for an inflatable female doll. "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," from Spaniard Isabel Coixet, stars Sergi Lopez and the busy Kikuchi Rinko. Set in Tokyo, the movie features both English and Japanese dialog.
Two months after the release of his first solo single, Yuusuke, more known under the name Yuusuke Kamiji as an actor and a member of Shuuchishin, is about to release the next one..
On March 11th, Yuusuke released Himawari, his first attempt at a promising solo career. Indeed, the actor/singer is quite liked by the Japanese. His method is successful, Himawari stayed on the Oricon top positions for over a month and even managed to steal KAT-TUN's top spot for a few days during its first week of sales.Announced for a July release, Kumi Koda's next single will contain three previously unreleased songs, one of which is entitled Lick Me. That will take some doing!
Many people probably think it will be an irreverent hip-hop/RnB song, but it is actually not that at all: a 45 second preview revealed to [b]Kumi Koda[b]'s fanclub shows it is an upbeat pop song, far from JUICY and her other RnB songs.Fans hoped for it but did not dare to believe it, yet it has now been confirmed: after singing the theme song for the movie Evangelion 1.0, Hikaru Utada will also sing the theme song of the sequel..
Amost two years ago, we learnt that Hikaru Utada had been chosen to sing the theme song for the first new Evangelion movie (there will be 4 movies). Entitled Beautiful World, the song had unanimous support and consequently gave complete satisfaction to Eva's producers.| Aira Mitsuki | BARBiE BARBiE | |
| Chihiro Onitsuka | X / Last Melody | |
| hitomi | World! Wide! Love! | |
| GARNET CROW | Doing all Right | |
| Fukuyama Masaharu | Keshi | |
| Maria | Getaway |
First of all, let's remember the CD Shop Taishou principle: bored because their discoveries are not in the list of award winners, record dealers from all over Japan decided to get together into an association, and to create their own awards, called CD Shop Taishou. These awards are supposed to highlight (indistinctively indies or major) albums which did not necessarily get media publicity matching their qualities.
A first section of 29 albums was revealed in January:
ACIDMAN 『LIFE』
Hikaru Utada 『HEART STATION』
HY 『HeartY』
Oohashi Trio 『THIS IS MUSIC』
Kicell 『magic hour』
Kaela Kimura 『+1』
9mm Parabellum Bullet 『VAMPIRE』
GOOD CREW 『Nippon Husky』
Anri Kumaki 『Hito Hinata』
GRAPEVINE 『Sing』
The Cromagnons 『FIRE AGE』
SAKEROCK 『Honyarara』
ZAZEN BOYS 『ZAZEN BOYS 4』
The Birthday 『NIGHT ON FOOL』
Superfly 『Superfly』
Soutaisei Riron 『Chiffon Shugi』
Sokabe Keiichi BAND 『キラキラ！』
Tamurapan 『Butabest』
Tsubakiya Shijuusou 『TOKYO CITY RHAPSODY』
Mika Nakashima 『VOICE』
NICO Touches the Walls 『Who are you?』
Motohiro Hata 『ALRIGHT』
Perfume 『GAME』
Ikuko Harada 『Kemono to Mahou』
Humbert Humbert 『Makkura Yami no Nimarekko』
pupa 『floating pupa』
Fuji Fabric 『TEENAGER』
Mr.Children 『SUPERMARKET FANTASY』
MUCC 『Shion』
Those were reduced to 10 semifinalists, among whom three finalists, one of them being the winner, were chosen.
Here is the winner list of the first CD Shop Taishou, with the url of some winners' MySpace so that you can discover them !
■ Grand Prize: Soutaisei Riron - Chiffon Shugi / http://www.myspace.com/soutaiseiriron
■ Finalists:
- Oohashi Trio - THIS IS MUSIC / http://www.myspace.com/ohashitrio
- Perfume - GAME
■ Semifinalistes (top10):
- Hikaru Utada - HEART STATION
- HY - HeartY / http://www.myspace.com/hymode
- SAKEROCK - Honyarara
- Superfly - Superfly
- Motohiro Hata - ALRIGHT
- pupa - floating pupa / http://www.myspace.com/floatingpupa
- Mr.Children - SUPER MARKET FANTASY
While the group have just finished their tour, they are already thinking of what comes next and have announced a new summer single..
Two months after the release of their successful best album, Remioromen announced their new single which is their 15th one.Koda Kumi had been threatened at the end of March, but everything was revealed only today to avoid compromising the inquiry.
On March 25th 2009, someone published death threats against Koda Kumi several times on the avex trax BBS. The singer and avex president Max Matsuura immediately pressed charges, and a few weeks later, the inquiry led to the indentification of the person who wrote the messages.Back in Japan for the promotion of her American album, Utada confessed something surprising to a Japanese radio..
The Japanese press can always be relied upon to focus on Hikaru Utada's private statements, and we noticed it once again in its comments about her latest interview.The information was confirmed by the singer's fanclub: as a countdown before his 10th anniversary, Gackt will release 4 singles which will include many songs of the songs which will be in his next original album..
Gackt recently had to cancel a live in South Korea since one of his sponsors left because of the economic crisis. Consequently, who does he think of in order to fill up his cash boxes? His fans of course!At this blog, you'll find news all around Japan, jpop and lots of other things.
This includes actual CD and DVD release dates, interviews,
charts, awards ...
It is right now in it's initial stage but I'm planning to updated constantly.
I hope you'll benefit from it :)
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