MTV Video Music Awards Japan Awarded for Music videos and pop culture Country Japan Presented by MTV Japan First award 2002 Website Official website
TheMTV Video Music Awards Japan (MTV VMAJ for short) are the Japanese version of theMTV Video Music Awards .
Like theMTV Video Music Awards in the United States, in this event artists are awarded for their songs and videos through online voting from the same channel viewers. Initially Japan was part of theMTV Asia Awards , which included all Asian countries, but because of the musical variety existent in Japan, in May 2002 began to hold their own awards independently.
On June 25, 2011, MTV Video Music Japan changed the 2011 ceremony to MTV Video Music Aid Japan 2011 as a charity event for the2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami .
Since 2017 the winners have been announced by the official Instagram account[ 1] without previous nominations.
Edition Date Venue City Host 1st May 24, 2002 Tokyo International Forum Tokyo London Boots Ichi-gō Ni-gō 2nd May 25, 2003 Saitama Super Arena Saitama Zeebra andNana Katase 3rd May 23, 2004 Tokyo Bay NK Hall Urayasu Tomomitsu Yamaguchi 4th May 29, 2005 Takashi Fujii andMegumi 5th May 27, 2006 Yoyogi National Gymnasium Tokyo Mokomichi Hayami andMasami Hisamoto 6th May 26, 2007 Saitama Super Arena Saitama Misaki Ito and Hidehiko Ishizuka7th May 31, 2008 Cyril 8th May 30, 2009 Gekidan Hitori 9th May 29, 2010 Yoyogi National Gymnasium Tokyo — N/a 10th June 25, 2011 Makuhari Messe Chiba AKB48 11th June 23, 2012 Perfume 12th June 22, 2013 Nobuaki Kaneko andAtsuko Maeda 13th June 14, 2014 Maihama Amphitheater Sayumi Michishige 14th November 26, 2015 act*square Tokyo Verbal 15th October 26, 2016 Shinkiba STUDIO COAST Rip Slyme 16th September 27, 2017 Ken Ayuga and JOANN 17th October 10, 2018 18th September 18, 2019 Hinatazaka46 19th October 29, 2020 Bish 20th December 18, 2021 Akari Kitō and Ken Ayugai21st November 2, 2022 Musashino Forest Sport Plaza Iwai Yuki, Mukai Satoshi and Yuka Sagai 22nd November 22, 2023 K Arena Yokohama Ryota Yamasato and Sachi Fujii23rd March 19, 2025 hiccorohee andSeiya (Shimofuri Myojo)
Song of the Year (2019–present) Best Solo Artist Video (2021–present) Year Artist Song 2022 CreepHyp "Night on the Planet" 2023 Macaroni Enpitsu "Kanashimi wa Bus ni Notte"
Best Animation Video (2023–present) Best Art Direction Video (2018, 2020–present) Best Cinematography (2018, 2020–present) Best Visual Effects (2021–present) Inspiration Award Japan (2014, 2016–2017, 2020, 2022) MTV the World Award (2019, 2021–2022) Best Live Performance (2015, 2022) MTV Breakthrough Song (2019–2022) Best Buzz Award (2017, 2019–present) Rising Star Award (2019–present) Daisy Bell Award (2021–present) Year Artist Song 2021 Hiiragi Kirai "Love ka?" 2022 Balloon "Pamela" 2023 Marasy, Jin, Shōta Horie (kemu) "Shinjinrui"
Global Icon Award (2023–present) Best Asia Celebrity (2023–present) Best Asia Group (2023–present) Upcoming Dance & Vocal Group (2023–present) Discontinued award categories [ edit ] Best Metal Video (2015–2017) Best Teen Choice Artist (2016) SAS Lifetime Achievement Award Japan (2018) Special Achievement Award (2014) Most wins in a single night [ edit ] Updated till 2020.
Japanese Music Award shows
Current Defunct