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This weekend at 6pm on Saturday evening Japan time, you can get the results of the MTV Japan Video Music Awards 2009 instantaneously as I Twitter the whole event.

Follow the JPopMp3s Twitter feed and be the first to know who wins what live as it is broadcast on satellite TV here in Japan. Click here to find out what time the live coverage starts in your part of the world.

Confirmed live performances include Black Eyed Peas, BoA & SEAN GARRETT, Ciara, Exile, Green Day, Katy Perry, Remio Romen and 9mm Parabellum Bullet.

Guest celebrities include, AI, Teruma Aoyama, Acidman, Big Bang, Crystal Kay, Yuna Ito, Nana Eikura, DJ Kaori (or Kiori as she pronouces her own name for some reason??) Natsuki Kato, Meisa Kuroki, MINMI, Maximum the Hormone, Special Others, Misako Sakazume, Shota Shimizu, Nana Tanimura, w-inds, and WWE’s Triple H(!)

So tune in and be the first to know everything that happens on Saturday night at the MTV Japan Video Music Awards 2009.

The following is a complete list of nominees for the MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2009

Best Male Video
KANYE WEST “Heartless”
KREVA “Akasatanahamayarawawon”
MOTOHIRO HATA “Forever Song”
NE-YO “Closer”
USHER “Love in This Club feat. YOUNG JEEZY”

Best Female Video
BEYONCE “If I Were a Boy”
BRITNEY SPEARS “Womanizer”
HIKARU UTADA “Prisoner Of Love”
NAMIE AMURO “NEW LOOK”
THELMA AOYAMA “Nandomo”

Best Group Video
EXILE “Ti Amo (Chapter2)”
FRANZ FERDINAND “Ulysses”
SHONAN NO KAZE “Koishigure”
THE KILLERS “Human”
TOHOSHINKI “Jumon -MIROTIC-”

Best New Artist Video
DUFFY “Mercy”
GIRL NEXT DOOR “Guzen no Kakuritsu”
KATY PERRY “I Kissed a Girl”
KIMAGUREN “LIFE”
MIHO FUKUHARA “CHANGE”

Best Video of the Year
BRITNEY SPEARS “Womanizer”
COLDPLAY “Viva La Vida”
EXILE “Ti Amo (Chapter2)”
NAMIE AMURO “NEW LOOK”
SOUTHERN ALL STARS “I AM YOUR SINGER”

Best Rock Video
ACIDMAN “I stand free”
FALL OUT BOY “I Don’t Care”
FRANZ FERDINAND “Ulysses”
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE “Tsume Tsume Tsume”
9MM PARABELLUM BULLET “Living Dying Message”

Best Pop Video
IKIMONOGAKARI “Kimagure Romantic”
KATY PERRY “I Kissed a Girl”
LILY ALLEN “The Fear”
PERFUME “Dream Fighter”
RIP SLYME “Taiyo to Bikini”

Best R&B Video
AKON “Right Now (NaNaNa)”
JUJU feat. Spontania “Sunao ni Naretara”
MILIYA KATO “19 Memories”
NAMIE AMURO “Sexy Girl”
Ne-Yo “Miss Independent”

Best Hip Hop Video
KANYE WEST “Heartless”
KREVA “Akasatanahamayarawawon”
LIL WAYNE “Lollipop feat.STATIC”
TERIYAKI BOYZ® “ZOCK ON! feat.Pharrell & Busta Rhymes”
T.I. “Live Your Life feat. RIHANNA”

Best Reggae Video
HAN-KUN “HOTTER THAN HOT”
KARDINAL OFFISHALL “Dangerous feat. AKON”
MIGHTY JAM ROCK “U.P. STAR”
NATTY “Cold Town”
RYO the SKYWALKER “EVER GREEN”

Best Dance Video
DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP “Thou Shalt Always Kill”
KRAAK & SMAAK “Squeeze Me feat. BEN WESTBEECH”
THE BPA “Toe Jam feat. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL”
TOWA TEI “Mind Wall feat. Miho Hatori”
UKAWANIMATION! feat. Takkyu Ishino x Kenichi Hagiwara “Wakusei no Portrait 5 Okuman Gaso”

Best Video from a Film
AI “Okuribito” from “Okuribito(Departures)”
JACK WHITE & ALICIA KEYS “Another Way to Die” from “Quantum of Solace”
MADONNA “4 Minutes feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & TIMBALAND” from “Get Smart”
MONOBRIGHT “Ano Toumeikan to Shonen” from “Afterschool”
REMIOROMEN “Yume no Tsubomi” from “Kansen Retto”

Best Collaboration Video
ANNA TSUCHIYA feat. AI “Crazy World”
MADONNA “4 Minutes feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & TIMBALAND”
NELLY and FERGIE “Party People”
SCHADARAPARR＋KAELA KIMURA “Hey! Hey! Alright”
T.I. “Live Your Life feat. RIHANNA”

Best Album of the Year
AYAKA “Sing to the Sky”
COLDPLAY “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends”
HIKARU UTADA “Heart Station”
Mr.Children “Supermarket Fantasy”
NE-YO “Year of the Gentleman”

Best Karaokee! Song
AQUA TIMEZ “Niji”
COLDPLAY “Viva La Vida”
FUNKY MONKEY BABYS “Kibou no Uta”
KIMAGUREN “LIFE”
MARIAH CAREY “Touch My Body”

Don’t forget you can get the results live on my Twitter feed on Saturday night. See top of the post for details.

VAMPS, the Japanese rock duo comprising of L’Arc~en~Ciel vocalist Hyde and K.A.Z from Oblivion Dust have released their self titled album on iTunes Japan one month before releasing it in stores. Get yours with a Japanese iTunes card now.

VAMPS new album is available on iTunes Japan 1 month before store

They will be touring the US in July, but if you don’t want to wait till then, or if you don’t even want to wait till the album is released next month, you can get it right now from the Japanese iTunes music store. You’ll need to be logged into the Japanese iTunes store before clicking here to view and preview all 13 tracks on the album. The album is 2400 Yen.

You don’t need an account at the Japanese iTunes music store to preview the tracks, but you will need one if you want to purchase and download the album instanty. Don’t worry that you don’t have a Japanese credit card or address that is normally required because you can do it all with a prepaid iTunes card that you can get at JPopMp3s.com. You’ll need a 3000 Yen card to get the album, which leaves you enough left over to dabble with a few other songs that you may have wanted but couldn’t get your hands on.

Live twitter feed as situation develops.

The media circus around Jpop idol, SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi`s arrest for public indecency is quickly reaching OJ Simpson proportions.
The reported facts of the case are as follows; Two nights ago Kusanagi, 34, was arrested in Hinokicho koen, a park in Tokyo’s Minato ward, not far from the currently popular Midtown Tokyo complex. Police were called at around 3 am when people who live near the park complained of a drunk and naked man shouting and singing loudly.

SMAP idol Kusanagi looks hungover almost 12 hours after his arrest for public indecency

Surprised police arrived at the scene to find a totally naked Kusanagi shouting things like  “kora!” and “baka!”(“Oi” and “Stupid”) and singing in Korean with his clothes neatly folded in a pile on the ground. When he was approached by the officers he reportedly flailed his arms and kicked his legs before being covered with a vinyl sheet and escorted by police back to Harujuku police station. When asked why he was not wearing any clothes he apparently shouted at the officers, “What’s wrong with being naked!”

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From today you are able to purchase 1500 yen Japanese iTunes cards from JPopMp3s.com.

For as low as USD 20!!

With Apple trying all sorts of shenanigans to beat the Chinese hackers who have apparently cracked the iTunes gift card algorythm, the supply of authentic iTunes Music Store Gift Cards, has dwindled, so we have decided to add the 1500 yen card to our lineup of cards on offer.

Not only that, but the more you purchase per order, the more you save. If you purchase 3 cards at once, you will get them for only 20 USD each. No shipping or handling costs, no waitung for it to arrive in the post.

Head on over to JPopMp3s.com now, join up and start getting all the Jpop and Jrock songs you want from the iTunes store.

It’s been over a week and it doesn’t look like Apple have come up with a solution to the Chinese hackers problem yet as gift card purchases are still limited to 5000 yen (USD50 elsewhere around the world).