This year's Kohaku Uta Gassen is the 67th installment of this long-running New Year's Eve institution, which is watched yesteryear millions of people roughly Japan.Kohaku is a male-vs-female singing face-off betwixt famous entertainers inward Nippon piece of job yesteryear Japan's populace broadcaster, NHK.
"Ko" is the kanji for "red" together with stands for the women; "haku" is for white together with represents the men.
The primary topic of this year's programme is "Let's sing a dream." However, non far below the happy together with well-run surface, is a much larger issue. SMAP - the nation's leading man child band - is breaking upward later a quarter century together with volition non endure appearing. Short of divine intervention, the "boys" (most of the members are right away inward their early on 40s), an institution, are finished. Rumors are rife.
Another large topic is that this may endure the concluding programme inward the Heisei Era every bit the electrical flow Emperor may abdicate inward the coming year.
The White (men's) squad is led yesteryear Masaki Aiba from the man child band Arashi - the heirs to SMAP. Actress Kasumi Arimura leads the Red (women's) team.
Hiraku Utada together with Puffy volition brand their debut appearances. Hiroshi Itsuki is making his 46th appearance.
Kohaku volition air on Dec 31 2015 from 7:15 pm to 11:45 pm on both NHK TV together with radio. The venue is NHK Hall inward Tokyo Japan's Shibuya district.
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