Japanese Girl (Hitomi song)

"Japanese Girl"
Single by Hitomi
from the album Love Concent
Released	June 1, 2005
Format	CD single, digital download
Recorded	2005
Genre	J-pop, dance-pop
Label	Love Life Records
Writer(s)	Hitomi
Hitomi singles chronology
Kokoro no Tabibito/Speed Star (2004) Japanese Girl (2006) Love Angel (2005)
Alternative Covers Limited Edition cover

"Japanese Girl" is Japanese singer Hitomi's twenty-eighth single. It is also her first work to be released from her own sub-label within Avex, Love Life Records.

Overview

The single as released the same as the DVD "Hitomi 2005 10th Anniversary Live: Thank You", and the photoshoot "hitomi Love Life Style", and it was released approximately one year after her previous single. "Japanese Girl", apart from being her first single to be released from her sub-label Love Life Records, marks as well a change in style in Hitomi's music. From the "rockish" image from her previous works until that date, with this single Hitomi began trying more dance-pop oriented music, and also changed her image to be more provocative than before. "Japanese Girl" was used as opening theme of NHK's TV show Music Fighter for May, and also of TVO's "Heroin Tanjo!".^[1]

As b-sides the single includes "Venus", cover of The Shocking Blue, which was used as backing music in commercials of Japan's Gillette starring Hitomi herself, and also a re-arranged version of "There Is...", Hitomi's 15th single.^[2]

The limited edition of the single included a special set of nail chip, as a special collaboration of Hitomi with nail artist Eriko Kurosaki.

Track listing

1. "Japanese Girl"
2. "Venus"
3. "There Is... (Love Life Version 2005)"

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release	Chart	Peak position	Sales total	Chart run
June 1, 2005	Oricon Daily Singles Chart	N/A
	Oricon Weekly Singles Chart	18	25,200	7 weeks

References

1. http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/2592892/s/
2. http://artist.cdjournal.com/d/japanese-girl/4105040394