"All Night Nippon" Translation----Important
 

I've just finished and uploaded the translation of the radio program, "All Night Nippon". Though it was broadcasted about four years ago, I believe it's one of the most important articles to understand her. And I've sometimes thought it very regrettable that foreign fans cannot read it, while every Japanese fan can read it very easily in a fan site. It is quite rare that she is talking about her past and her private life so openly. And it is quite rare, too, that a mere radio program is so impressive. If you find any unnatural parts, please inform me.


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Thx for the translation of the article Masa.

That is amazing! Thank you so much! You must have worked so hard on that. Thank you thank you thank you!

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I was so astonlished to see such a detailed and natural translatioon from you!

This article is really insightful. I think this deserve to be on sticky for a few days.......


Arigato!

Thank you so much!! that is really amazing.. Ayu is such a wonderful and unique person, and incredibly wise. I was suprised to hear a 20 year-old say some of the things that she was saying. This has to be my favorite thing she said from there -

"Well, so, I've never thought I'm great. And I always think and say that Ayu is greater than no one and no one is greater than Ayu. Even if there is a person who has a very high position, who is very rich, or who is not, Ayu never has a measure in myself to judge who is greater than me or who is not. And I hope I will always be what I'm now."

It's simply amazing. Thank you a million times over for translating this. I think that all Ayu fans should read this.

Ashley

Thnx for the translation:thumbsup

Thanks for the translation.

wow.... truely..

Yes, this is legendary.

Thanks ever so much for sharing it with us, masa. Its incredible. Ive finished reading but I'm still amazed. It must have took a long time for you to translate this. Thank you.

One thing I want to know, whats this 'Voices in a city'?

hmm.. i think it's just the radio part.. i mean to make things more interesting they made a dialogue between a man and a woman with the city's sound as the background to represents the feelings of the community ^^

just an opinion of mine

Thank you for making this very important document available to us masa.

I wish I knew how to explain how i feel after reading this. What a remarkable human being Ayumi Hamasaki is.

I wonder if Ayumi and Natsuki are still friends...

i will try to read this article slowly.. because my eyes got tired after staring at the article for a long time... thanks again, masa!!!!

You are welcome.

To: SurrealDream
"Voices in a city" is the voices gathered randomly in some cities, such as Shinjuku, Shibuya, etc. Then, who interviewed the people? I think it was some staff of "All Night Nippon." Because if the staff of avex had interviewed, they would have gathered the comments more favourable to Ayumi. Btw, can you believe that she was told to be stupid-like or a copycat of Kahara Tomomi four years ago?

To: nmskalmn
If you look at the end page of the leaflet of each album carefully, you will find the name of Natsuki in that of the first, second and third album. But her name isn't written in that of the fourth and fifth album. It is whispered among Japanese fans that their friendship ended around the time of her creating the third album, and I suppose so, too. But it's not certain and it's really a private matter of Ayumi, so I didn't write about it clearly in my own article.

Wow, that is a great translation !! Thanks so much !!!

i agree with everyone above about that article. it is very intresting. i have several magazines where ayu was interviewed, but i can only read hiragan, and not katakana or kanjii. in anycase i think that ayu does have a good head on her, and wnats to be who she is. she doesn't want to play to anyone.

Thank you so very much for the very detailed translation masa, I must say that we do really appreciate your effort to bring this piece of article / radio show to us ayumi fans. This is definitely something that I would spend time on reading :) my school monitor is not that pleasant for reading text ( i m using the small linux lab (17" monitors) instead of the 3dmax lab that has 22inch monitors) so i'm gonna print this all out :)! thanks again for this great effort masa!

good job Masa-kun! The translation is fine. Ayu is really someone. An inspiration, an idol, and a teacher. I feel sorry for her past life and grateful for her present self.

thanks for your great effort to make this known to all ayu fans:D

oooo no wonder ayu is such a tough woman........ thats why i will always support her...

thanx for the translation~
it shows that she has inner beauty, of 'coz as well as outer beauty
it'z all good

this is awesome!!!! Thanks, masa!!
Ayu's past is so sad...... :(

That is truly amazing! Thank you very much masa!!!!!!!!!

true her past is sad..but i think itz her unhappy past that makes her to able to write such wonderful lyrics...

Does anyone still have this translation somewhere? My curiosity was piqued after the most recent M drama episode :) I tried Way back machine but it didn't work.

Masa's site can now be accessed at http://morimasa.art.coocan.jp/e-ayu.html

The All Night Nippon is Article 1 :love

Thank you!! :love

Does anyone have the audio recoding of this?

Someone uploaded the recording to YouTube:

https://youtu.be/EnSPBJU0jOs

There was also a commercial advertising it:

https://youtu.be/8CVTv828i-M

The audio recordings for all of the All Night Nippons she did are still here as well, uploaded by Zemus. MEGA links still work since he reuploaded!

http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115520

Thanks both!:love

wow thanks for bumping this thread after seventeen years! this truly is a gem; I listened to the recording while reading masa's translation. what a fascinating mind she has, after having been brought up in such an unorthodox household.

I genuinely forget, but is Natsuki the friend whom she dedicates untitled ~for her~ to? :(

Nope, Natsuki (@japan_natsuki on instagram) is alive and well! I think the friend to whom she dedicated "untitled ~for her~" was Ayumi Ogata. Ayu referred to her as "Aneki", iirc.

thank you! I vaguely remembered that it wasn't Natsuki, but I had to make sure.

thanks both!

After watching the episode of M I got curious and listened to the radio show...

It's funny how she is nowhere near bothered by people calling her dumb for talking about herself in the third person lol... Thankfully she seemed to have overcome that habit in later years.

And also really touching how she got emotional Hifumi (123) said thanking her for singing in that TV show in spite of feeling sick... I wonder if he's still a fan of hers?

It was so much fun reading the transcription while listening to the radio show.
I'm so proud of how strong she's become because of the things she went through. :)

The whole thing about people calling her "stupid" and saying that they hate her, or that she's stupid but at least she's cute was so intense. She handle it amazing! And it was so sweet when she starts crying over how grateful she is for being able to start her career.