43rd Japan Record Awards

Award winners

Japan Record Award

• "Dearest" by Ayumi Hamasaki

Best Album Award

Best Singer Award

• Hisami Tagawa

Best Newcomer Award

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Composition Award

• Kazuhito Kikuchi for "Fragile" by Every Little Thing

Lyricist Award

• Chihiro Onitsuka for "Vertigo" by Chihiro Onitsuka

Arrangement Award

• Megumi Wakakusa for "Yume no Hate ~Meridian Dream~" by Sachiko Kobayashi

Tadashi Yoshida Award

• Masato Sugimoto

Gold Medal

• "Fragile" by Every Little Thing
• "Taiga no Nagare" by Miyuki Kawanaka
• "Always and Again and Again" by Yumi Kimura
• "White Lovers" by Keisuke Kuwata
• "Uminari" by Toshimi Tagawa
• "Steppin' and Shakin'" by DA PUMP
• "Spring Has Come" by Yoshimi Tendo
• "Dearest" by Ayumi Hamasaki
• "Because It's the First Time in Three Years" by Yuri Harada
• "Oi Chasing Otojiro" by Kiyoshi Hikawa
• "IS IT YOU?" by Hitomi
• "Your innocence" by Hiro

New Face Award

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• Shinobu Otowa
• ZONE

Planning Award

Distinguished Service Award

• Saburo Kitajima
• Sadao Watanabe

Special Prize

• "There will be tomorrow" by Re:Japan
• "ZERO LANDMINE" by NML

Special Award

• Toru Funamura

Special Achievement Award

• Hibari Misora