J-friends

Released: January 13, 1999

Songwriter: Michael Jackson 秋元康 (Yasushi Akimoto)

Producer: 秋元康 (Yasushi Akimoto)

[Uta 1]
Kimi to deatte
Aisuru imi wo
Boku wa oshierareta
Kakegae no nai
Kimi no subete wo
Mamoritai to omou

[Purikōrasu]
Hito wa dare mo
Umareta toki kara
Minna de ikiteru

[Kōrasu]
People all over the world
Dokoka de dareka ga
Nanika hajimete
Ai ni naru
Kimi no tame ni
Boku wa utaitai
Ai no kono uta wo

[Uta 2]
Kimi ga dokoka de
Namida nagaseba
Boku no mune wa itamu
Kitto sekai no
Dare no namida mo
Onaji itami darou

[Purikōrasu]
Kata wo daite
Kokoro wo chikazuke
Minna de utaou

[Kōrasu]
People all over the world
Kimi ga hohoemeba
Boku mo hohoemi
Ai ni naru
Itsu no hi ni ka
Kitto sekaichuu
Egao dake ni naru

[Kōrasu]
People all over the world
Dokoka de dareka ga
Nanika hajimete
Ai ni naru
Kimi no tame ni
Boku wa utaitai
Ai no kono uta wo

[Kōrasu]
People all over the world
Kimi ga hohoemeba
Boku mo hohoemi
Ai ni naru
Itsu no hi ni ka
Kitto sekaichuu
Egao dake ni naru

[Kōrasu]
People all over the world
Dokoka de dareka ga
Nanika hajimete
Ai ni naru
Kimi no tame ni
Boku wa utaitai
Ai no kono uta wo

Itsu no hi ni ka
Kitto sekaichuu
Egao dake ni naru

Kimi no tame ni
Boku wa utaitai
Ai no kono uta wo

[Autoro]
People all over the world
Ai ga kikoeru yo
People all over the world
(Together, we sing to make a better world, for all our children and our children's children)
People from country to country
People all over the world
Ai ga kikoeru yo
People all over the world
Ai ga kikoeru yo

J-FRIENDS was a special unit made up of Johnny’s Entertainment groups Tokio, V6, and KinKi Kids. It was formed to raise funds for the education of children involved in the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995. Until their disbandment in 2003 they were able to release 6 singles and held some charity concerts and events. In the end, they were able to donate 874.278.322 Yen.

In 1995, there was a big earthquake in Hanshin and Awaji in Japan. About 6,500 people died and 513,000 houses broke. To help such people, in 1998, KinKi Kids, along with fellow Johnny’s groups V6 and Tokio, came together to form a special charity-oriented group called J-FRIENDS, they sang songs to raise the money for Hanshin and Awaji earthquake victims especially for children, in which all the songs are created and is produced by many famous international musicians such as Michael Jackson, Maurice White, Diane Warren, Elton John, Jon Bon Jovi, and Koshi Inaba. J-Friends’s first single “Ashita ga Kikoeru/Children’s Holiday (“ (明日が聴こえる/Children’s Holiday, "Can You Hear Tomorrow/Children’s Holiday”)”, released on January 21, 1998, went on to sell over a million copies and ranked 12th on the annual Oricon charts by the end of the year.

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