I am looking for japanese songs that is soothing or 'comfortable' to listen to. for example like
EXILE-lovers again http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hWZjJ6eFoF0
or Hirai Ken - hitomi wo tojite http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-9KYehdJKgA
any recommendation?
thanks in advance

Morning Musume - Furusato http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHEeugPWj5s

There are many different versions (multiple members sang their own version), but this is the original.

EXILE - Hero
Glay - Way of difference
Kinki Kids - Harmony of December
melody. - Love Song && Haruka
rurutia - Hohoemi no Maria && Arabesque && Hallelujah
Hamasaki Ayumi - Hanabi && Together When...
W-inds - Ame ato
Amuro Namie - Baby Don't Cry
Otsuka Ai - Planetarium && Kingyo Hanabi
Arashi - Kotoba Yori mo Taisetsu na mono
AAA - Get Chu!

My sister and I made the list above

--angel

Hm, soothing songs ...
Sonomama - SMAP
Planetarium - Ai Otsuka
everyhome - Chihiro Onitsuka
Dear... - Cliff Edge ft. MAY'S
Recover - Hiromi
Namida ga Ochi nai you ni - COLOR (many of COLOR's other songs would be good too)

Tohoshinki - Doush!te Kimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimattandarou?

Tohoshinki - Love In The Ice

Tohoshinki - Proud

Tohoshinki - Eternal

Tohoshinki - Yakusoku

and so I'm not biased lol~

Shimizu Shota - Miss You

Namie Amuro - Should I Love Him

Nao'ymt - Lil Goldfish

Nao'ymt - Boom Boom Boom

Maaya Sakamoto- Tune the rainbow
Maaya Sakamoto- Yubiwa
Maaya Sakamoto- The garden of everything *this gets a bit upbeat later on...so I'm not sure if you'll find this to your liking*
Kobukuro- Eien no tomo ni They're somewhat similar to Ken Hirai
Eri Nobuchika- Sketch for summer
Miwako Okuda- Tsuki ga Suki If you really like her style, I recommend her second album, which is more on the calmer side. Her first album was more 'emo', but it's pretty good too.

I tried not to suggest the typical artists of Jpop that you hear, but I thought maybe these 2 songs from Ai Otsuka won't hurt.
Ai Otsuka-Daisuki da yo
Ai Otsuka- Kingyo Hanabi

*edit
Okay I have to add:
Rikki- Suteki da ne If you are familiar with FFX you'll know this song very well haha

wow! wow! arigatou minna!!!
I'll listen to all the recommendation!
thank you all very much!

Namie Amuro:(I recommend all together all around #1 in Japan)
Baby Don't Cry
Can You Celebrate?
White Light
I WILL
Four Seasons
Lovebite
Lovin' It
Come
Wishing On The Same Star
I Have Never Seen
Respect The Power Of Love
Girl Talk
Ups & Downs
I Love You
All For You
Pink Key
Nobody
I also recommend her whole "Love Enhanced" Album

Tohoshinki:(Recommend all around the greatest group and #1 group in Japan)
Have way to many to name. haha


Koda Kumi:(Recommend all around she is one of the best too)
These albums I recommend:
Best~first things~

Best~second session~

BEST ~BOUNCE & LOVERS~

Secret

Kingdom

Black Cherry

Koda Kumi Songs:

Moon Crying
Once Again
LADY GO!

Mika Nakashima:
Cry No More
Amini coopereru


Miliyah Kato:
19 Memories

Ayumi Hamasaki:
Memorial Address
Pride

Yuna Ito:
Losin'
I'm Here
Mahaloha
Anata Ga Iru Kagiri ~A World to Believe In~


Shion:
Shunkashuutou

Ishida Yuko:
Changes

Tweny 4-7:
Summer Story


Emi Tawata:
Flowers

Hajime Chitose:
Cassini

Daikohara Yuki:
gomenne

Hoshiba Kanae:
AZUKI IRO

Nakamura Fukiko:
odorey

BRIGHT - Tears: http://www.imeem.com/miku/music/dQvFiKWj/bright_jpop_tears/
Parago - ORION: http://www.imeem.com/people/kFiYhDh/music/...se_go_go_orion/
w-inds. - STAY: http://www.imeem.com/machika/music/qhUNYfgJ/winds_stay/

I don't know how much you would like those songs but I find them pretty comfortable. I especially love Tears by BRIGHT.

EDIT: Oh. I forgot about Ryohei Yamamoto too. He has a good variety of songs that are pretty soothing.

thanks my playlist is growing. i even started to like imeem lol

I haven't listened to 'Paradise Go! Go! - Orion' for so longggg, thanks for reminding me =D gonna go DL it again lol

Most songs by Bonnie Pink are very relaxing.

Ocean - http://youtube.com/watch?v=SoD24OE4PLc

TOE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xvcFFPQijqk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Va-MpUQyoQg

DEAREST- MIENO HITOMI
DRAWING DAYS-SPLAY

Kinki Kids - Ao no Jidai, To Heart

Ayumi Hamasaki - Who... , Dearest

NEWS - Zutto, Best Friend

alan - 明日への讃歌
alan - 空唄
alan - 桜モダン

All alan's songs are quite unique and beautiful, you should definitely check them out It's like Chinese and Japanese music blended together (She's actually Chinese/Tibetan)

m-flo loves melody. & Ryohei - miss you
m-flo loves MONKEY MAJIK - Picture Perfect Love

Some m-flo remixes are always a must in the Jpop

AZU - 時間よとまれfeat.SEAMO

The R&B beats of Japan are a must too

it sounds like traditional chinese songs which reminds me of shima uta http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=v6hpKOgMUsE
a song for okinawa

thank you to everyone who shared!

Isn't Shima Uta Japanese though?

LOL yes but she just reminds me of shima uta traditional is good

ORANGE RANGE -hana

Kamenashi Kazuya -someday for somebody

alan's ballads so far has had hints of traditional chinese accents into her songs, which is beautiful <3, she's chinese afterall
like

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MMemaRW6D4E
懐かしい未来 ～longing future～

though i'm not sure if the er hu is played there
you'll have to watch the mv for that, but the actual song is like 5 min so yeah haha
just giving you a taste

here's her singing a japanese song and playing the er hu<3
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9agqYaAi4&fmt=18

These are soothing & comfortable for me:

BoA - Everlasting (there's also a Korean single)
BoA - JEWEL SONG
BoA - Song With No Name ～名前のない歌～
BoA - Your Color
BoA - Winter Love
BoA - MOON AND SUNRISE
Utada - First Love
Utada - Prisoner of Love

Yeah, I don't listen to a lot of Japanese music, but those are some that people have recommended me, and I liked them. :]

Attack All Around - Hanabi
ayaka - POWER OF MUSIC
exile - What Is Love
exile - MY FANTASY
Hey!Say!7 - BON BON
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR - Amazing
Kagrra - Sai
Kagrra - Shigatsu Tsuitachi
Ken Hirai - POP STAR
m-flo loves Melody&Ryohei - miss you
m-flo loves YOSHIKA - let go
Moriyama Naotaro - toki no yukue ~jo - haru no sora~
Roma Tanaka - one
w-inds - Love
w-inds - TOKYO
w-inds - 1 or 8
w-inds - Shiki
yui - LOVE & TRUTH
yui - Good-Bye Days
and i would like to know your opinion ^_-

I'm guessing you're a THSK fan (from your sig)
Try the Gospellers... you might have seen them perform with THSK

here are some of my fav. ballads:
Ayaka --Mikazuki
SunMin - Keep Holding U
Yuna Ito - Endless Story
Mika Nakashima - Yuki No Hana
Namie Amuro
nao'ymt <- I think he's Namie Amuro's producer ... but he has an awesome album you should check out (with a bunch of songs he produced).
M-flo feat. Melody & Yamamoto Ryohei-Miss You
News - Ai Nante
Tegomass - Kiss~Kaerimichi no Love Song
Ueda(KAT-TUN) - 愛の華-AI NO HANA

all Utada Hikaru's will do
all her songs are amazing..
also Ayaka's I believe and her songs from her new album 'Sing to the sky"

thank you! i am not good in commenting songs i just love listen to them but that moriyama naotaro song is really good
i love his voice. i see some of the songs you recommended is more happy & upbeat than soothing/relaxing as i have mentioned in my first post
but all songs are great!


everyone おつかれさまでした! sankyu!



*edit*
i started to admire w-inds. they are different from other 'prettyboy' group

Yes im a big toho fan! i think the toho version of acapella towani is better than the original
i am surprise you are also a fan of ueda tatsuya from kat-tun. i love his solo 'love in snow' http://www.imeem.com/joylyn256/music/UlI22...a_love_in_snow/ .
i heard this song was originally written & compose by him. a hidden songwriter in a johnny's pretty boy group.

i'm really sorry when recommending i always get curried away
but there is new band i just discovered NATURAL8 they might fit ur bill
their album GOLDEN SHUFFLE2.




i know w-inds are the only boygroup that i could love, u should watch their live.

I agree. I liked it when THSK performed towani (?) for music fair.. I like gospeller's music, but their lead singer's voice is a bit too nasal for me.
I like "Love in Snow" as well. this guy is a talented writer. I love his solos the best from the group (he writes his own, maybe that's why it sounds better)
I'm actually a KAT-TUN fan. I tried not to like them, but somehow they squirmed in

You might want to check out "skoop on somebody" - Sha la la very thskish

wang lee hom - dream again - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTp6rJMZouE

i LOVE j-rock. for me its comfortable.

my fave band is Ellegarden. one of my favorte sons from them is Koukasen----> http://www.imeem.com/people/KY-6hz_/music/...arden_koukasen/

Relaxing songs??

Try Full Of Harmony!!! These guys are Japan's top R&B group

Sample: Namida no Kazu dake
Can't Get Enough??? Download their discography



I love NATURAL8 too But I prefer Golden Shuffle than Golden Shuffle2 though XD

If you want some male relaxing songs try the ff artists: EXILE, COLOR, Full Of Harmony, Wada Masaya, Sweep, Skoop on Somebody, Gospellers, Hi-D, Ryohei, K, Jay'ed, Miura Daichi, CHEMISTRY, Shimizu Shota. Need help with those stuff?? I'm just a PM away ^___~

You should try out Utada Hikaru's songs. Her slow songs/ballads are friggen' masterpieces.
Try songs like:

Passion
Take 5
Kettobase!
For you
Time Limit
Be My Last
BLUE

And a little ligther/happier song: traveling.


Sorry, I don't have any links right now. D8

i highly recommend Dohzi-T - Better Days feat. Kato Miliyah & Tanaka Roma and another song of his Dohzi-T - One Love feat. Shimizu Shota

thank you minna ♥!
i never get tired of japanese songs
sankyu~♥!

ALL of Utada Hikaru songs! She has a great voice and good songs to listen to! Check her out!

hello i saw u guys recommending some soothing Japanese songs right??
hv u guys heard of the band ROUND TABLE but they did a featuring with a girl called Nino and i love her voice sooo much!
they are actually doing soundtracks for animes like Chobits, Hack, Aria the natural
but yeah they came up with an album that features Nino in all of them!!

here's some soothing and really cute and nice song to listen on an afternoon^^

Rainbow (highly recommended!!!^_^)
Rainbow ACOUSTIC VERSION (Guitar only)
Natsu Machi

other not the soothing type but more cheerful?/ dont know how to describe but great to listen to!
Let me be with you (Chobits-they got famous becoz of this song)
In April (i love this one)
Message
Beautiful(I recommend this one too^^)
New World
Koi wo shi teru (their newest single i love it too)

Tegomass- Ai ai kasa
Tegomass-Hajimete no Asa
Yuna Ito- Endless Story

oo and also the following song too. idk about soothing but it sure makes you positive. ^^ --> Yuna Ito- Urban Mermaid

hmm... Try

Koda Kumi- Pearl Moon, hands, Promise, Come Back, Rain, Ai no Uta
Ayumi Hamasaki- Voyage
Chemistry- deep inside of you, Kokoro to Kotoba, Saigo no kawa
Mai Kuraki- White snow
Mika Nakashima- Find the way, Missing, Oborodukiyo ~Inori, yuki no hana, Sakurairo Maukoro
Yuna ito- Truth, alone again, unite as one, wish
Utada Hikaru- First Love, Flavor of Life, Wings, Kairo
Satomi'- I'll never leave your love, Bright Will
Tohoshinki- Asu wa kurukara
ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA (BLACK STONES)- stand by me
BoA- be with you, Everlasting, Best Friend, Jewel Song, a song with no name

Phewww.. this is all i can come up with at the moment.. lol. hmm i love listening to all of these songs.. they bring alot of peace to me and clear my mind. I highly recommend all of these songs, cause when i 1st heard them, i fell in love with them on the spot... I hope you like them..

greeeen songs.

grEEEEn - Ai Uta is a good one.

these songs always comfort me:
luna sea - 400am
sawajiri erika - taiyou no uta
tokyo jihen - super star
pillows - hybrid rainbow

that's like my before i go to sleep mix