NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen (ＮＨＫ紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kouhaku, is an annual New Year's Eve television special held on December 31 every year, and produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on NHK General TV, BS4K, BS8K and NHK radio (nationally) and internationally on NHK World Premium and some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program. The program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The 'red' team or 'akagumi' (紅組) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the 'white' team or 'shirogumi' (白組) is all male (or groups with male vocals).
Japanese study overview
Kouhaku Utagassen is a Japanese drama of 26,610 characters, with 1,916 unique words and 804 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,916 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 有吉Ariyoshi×171
- 皆さんall×143
- 橋本Hashinomoto×122
- 伊藤Ito×119
- 今年this year×74
- 紅白red and white×73
- 歌うto sing×73
- 歌song×63
- 今夜this evening×54
- 続くto continue×50
- 思うto think×46
- 年year×46
- 内村Uchimura×36
- 紅白歌合戦Kōhaku Uta Gassen×18
- ＮＨＫJapan Broadcasting Corporation×16
- 西田Saita×16
- 木梨Kinashi×12
- 初出場debut×11
- 名曲famous piece of music×10
- 白組white team×9