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The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Japan were held on Saturday, May 31 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Awards
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
=Ne-Yo — "Because of You"
Chris Brown featuring T-Pain — "Kiss Kiss"
Ken Hirai — "Fake Star"
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
=Motohiro Hata — "Uroko"
Erika — "Free"
Mika — "Grace Kelly"
Satomi Takasugi — "Tabibito"
Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"
= Best Rock Video
=Radwimps — "Order Made"
9mm Parabellum Bullet — "Discommunication"
Foo Fighters — "The Pretender"
L'Arc-en-Ciel — "Seventh Heaven"
Linkin Park — "What I've Done"
= Best Pop Video
=Avril Lavigne — "Girlfriend"
Fergie — "Clumsy"
M-Flo Loves Emi Hinouchi, Ryohei, Emyli, Yoshika and Lisa — "Love Comes and Goes"
Ai Otsuka — "Peach"
Yui — "Love & Truth"
= Best R&B Video
=Namie Amuro — "Hide & Seek"
AI — "I'll Remember You"
Mary J. Blige featuring Lil Mama — "Just Fine"
Chris Brown featuring T-Pain — "Kiss Kiss"
Miliyah Kato featuring Wakadanna — "Lalala"
= Best Hip-Hop Video
=Soulja Boy — "Crank That"
50 Cent featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland — "Ayo Technology (She Wants It)"
Kreva — "Strong Style"
Kanye West — "Stronger"
T.I. — "Big Things Poppin'
= Best Reggae Video
=Shōnan no Kaze — "Suirenka"
Fire Ball — "Place in your Heart"
Sean Kingston — "Beautiful Girls"
Mavado — "Dreaming"
Pushim — "Hey Boy"
= 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
=Hikaru Utada — "Beautiful World" (from Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone)
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)
Yui — "Love & Truth" (from Closed Note)
= Best Collaboration
=Kumi Koda featuring TVXQ — "Last Angel"
Beyoncé and Shakira — "Beautiful Liar"
Yuna Ito x Celine Dion — "A World to Believe In"
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
=Infinity 16
Funky Monkey Babys
Megumi
Satomi Takasugi
Foxxi MisQ
= Best buzz ASIA
=Japan
Ai — "I'll Remember You"
AAA — "Mirage"
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
Andy Lau — "One"
Eason Chan — "Long time no see"
Jay Chou — "Cowboy On The Run"
Wang Leehom — "Falling Leaf Returns to Root"
Sodagreen — "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