2008 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

2008 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
Date	May 31, 2008
Venue(s)	Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Saitama
Country	Japan
Host(s)	Cyril
Network	MTV Japan

The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Japan were held on Saturday, May 31 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Video of the Year

• Exile — "I Believe"
• Mr. Children — "Irodori"
• Rihanna featuring Jay-Z — "Umbrella"
• Tokyo Incidents — "Osca"
• Kanye West — "Stronger"

Album of the Year

• Exile — Exile Love
• Ketsumeishi — Ketsunopolice 5
• Kumi Koda — Kingdom
• Avril Lavigne — The Best Damn Thing
• Ne-Yo — Because of You

Best Male Video

• Chris Brown featuring T-Pain — "Kiss Kiss"
• Ken Hirai — "Fake Star"
• Ne-Yo — "Because of You"
• Tamio Okuda — "Mugen no Kaze"
• Seamo — "Cry Baby"

Best Female Video

• Fergie — "Big Girls Don't Cry"
• Alicia Keys — "No One"
• Kumi Koda — "Ai no Uta"
• Mika Nakashima — "Life"
• Ai Otsuka — "Peach"

Best Group Video

• M-Flo Loves Emi Hinouchi, Ryohei, Emyli, Yoshika and Lisa — "Love Comes and Goes"
• Maroon 5 — "Makes Me Wonder"
• Mr. Children — "Irodori"
• Rip Slyme — "I.N.G"
• Sum 41 — "Underclass Hero"

Best New Artist

• Erika — "Free"
• Motohiro Hata — "Uroko"
• Mika — "Grace Kelly"
• Satomi Takasugi — "Tabibito"
• Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"

Best Rock Video

• 9mm Parabellum Bullet — "Discommunication"
• Foo Fighters — "The Pretender"
• L'Arc-en-Ciel — "Seventh Heaven"
• Linkin Park — "What I've Done"
• Radwimps — "Order Made"

Best Pop Video

• Fergie — "Clumsy"
• Avril Lavigne — "Girlfriend"
• M-Flo Loves Emi Hinouchi, Ryohei, Emyli, Yoshika and Lisa — "Love Comes and Goes"
• Ai Otsuka — "Peach"
• Yui — "Love & Truth"

Best R&B Video

• AI — "I'll Remember You"
• Namie Amuro — "Hide & Seek"
• Mary J. Blige featuring Lil Mama — "Just Fine"
• Chris Brown featuring T-Pain — "Kiss Kiss"
• Miliyah Kato featuring Wakadanna — "Lalala"

Best Hip-Hop Video

• 50 Cent featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland — "Ayo Technology (She Wants It)"
• Kreva — "Strong Style"
• Rip Slyme — "I.N.G"
• Kanye West — "Stronger"
• Zeebra featuring Jesse — "Not Your Boyfriend"

Best Reggae Video

• Fire Ball — "Place in your Heart"
• Sean Kingston — "Beautiful Girls"
• Mavado — "Dreaming"
• Pushim — "Hey Boy"
• Shōnan no Kaze — "Suirenka"

Best Dance Video

• The Chemical Brothers — "Do It Again"
• Denki Groove — "Shounen Young"
• Justice — "D.A.N.C.E."
• Shinichi Osawa — "Our Song (A Lonely Girl Ver.)"
• Ryukyudisko featuring Beat Crusaders — "Nice Day"

Best Video From a Film

• Ketsumeishi — "Deai no Kakera" (from Kage Hinata ni Saku)
• Linkin Park — "What I've Done" (from Transformers)
• Snow Patrol — "Signal Fire" (from Spider-Man 3)
• Hikaru Utada — "Beautiful World" (from Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone)
• Yui — "Love & Truth" (from Closed Note)

Best Collaboration

• Beyoncé and Shakira — "Beautiful Liar"
• Yuna Ito x Celine Dion — "A World to Believe In"
• Kumi Koda featuring Tohoshinki — "Last Angel"
• Toshinobu Kubota meets Kreva — "M☆A☆G☆I☆C"
• Timbaland featuring The Hives — "Throw It On Me"

Best Karaokee! Song

• Exile — "Toki no Kakera"
• Avril Lavigne — "Girlfriend"
• Mika Nakashima — "Life"
• Ne-Yo — "Because of You"
• Shōnan no Kaze — "Suireka"

Red Hot Award

• Funky Monkey Babys
• Infinity 16
• Megumi
• Satomi Takasugi
• Foxxi MisQ

Best buzz ASIA

Japan

• AAA — "Mirage"
• AI — "I'll Remember You"
• Double — "Spring Love"
• Micro — "Hana Uta"
• DJ Ozma — "Tokyo Boogie Back"

South Korea

• Cherry Filter — "Feel It"
• Clazziquai — "Robotica"
• JYP — "Kiss"
• Leessang — "Ballerino"
• T — "Did You Forget"

Taiwan

• Eason Chan — "Long time no see"
• Jay Chou — "Cowboy On The Run"
• Andy Lau — "One"
• Wang Leehom — "Falling Leaf Returns to Root"
• Soda green — "Incomparable Beauty"

Special awards

MTV Video Vanguard Award

• Mariah Carey

MTV Rock The World Award

• Takeshi Kobayashi and Kazutoshi Sakurai

Live performances

• Ayaka — "Okaeri"
• Exile — "24 karats-type EX"
• Fergie — "Big Girls Don't Cry"
• Mariah Carey — "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time"
• Nelly and Fergie — "Party People"
• Orange Range — "O2"
• Simple Plan — "When I'm Gone"

Red carpet live

• Colbie Caillat
• Flo Rida
• Miliyah Kato
• W-inds

Guest celebrities

AAA AI Namie Amuro Aqua Timez Asia Engineer Bono Double Foxxi misQ Funky Monkey Babys Hata Motohiro Ikimono-gakari Yuna Ito KCO Rinko Kikuchi Tetsuya Komuro Leah Dizon

Shota Matsuda Megumi Mihimaru GT Shun Oguri Paris Hilton Ruy Ramos Seamo Shōnan no Kaze Suzanne Satomi Takasugi Verbal from M-Flo Akiko Wada Dongfeng Yu Yamada Zeebra Aktion aka Claude Maki