2012 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

2012 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
Date	June 23, 2012
Location	Makuhari Messe
Hosted by	Perfume
Television/radio coverage
Network	MTV Japan
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• Lady Gaga — "You and I"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers — "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
• Girls' Generation — "Mr. Taxi"
• Tokyo Jihen — "Kon'ya wa Karasawagi"

Album of the Year

Girls' Generation — Girls' Generation

• Coldplay — Mylo Xyloto
• Juju — You
• Kara — Super Girl
• Lady Gaga — Born This Way

Best Male Video

Bruno Mars — "It Will Rain"

• David Guetta (featuring Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj) — "Where Them Girls At"
• Gen Hoshino — "Film"
• Justin Bieber — "Mistletoe"
• Naoto Inti Raymi — "Brave"

Best Female Video

• Ayaka — "Hajimari no Toki"
• Björk — "Crystalline"
• Kana Nishino — "Tatoe Donnani…"
• Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris — "We Found Love"

Best Group Video

2PM — "I'm Your Man"

• Coldplay — "Paradise"
• Ikimonogakari — "Itsudatte Bokura Wa"
• Moves Like Jagger
  "
• Monkey Majik — "Hero"

Best New Artist

2NE1 — "I Am The Best"

• In My Head
  "
• James Blake — "Limit to Your Love"
• Tsukema Tsukeru
  "
• LMFAO — "Party Rock Anthem
  "

One Ok Rock — "Answer Is Near"

• Bon Iver — "Holocene"
• Radwimps — "Kimi to Hitsuji to Ao"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers — "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
• Bach no Senritsu o Yoru ni Kiita Sei Desu.
  "

Best Pop Video

Sandaime J Soul Brothers — "Fighters"

• Naked
  "
• Beyoncé — "Run the World (Girls)
  "
• Ikimono-gakari
  — "Itsudatte Bokura Wa"
• Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris — "We Found Love"

Best R&B Video

Miliyah Kato — "Yūsha-Tachi"

• Ai — "Independent Woman"
• Amy Winehouse — "Our Day Will Come"
• Jason Derülo — "It Girl
  "
• Mayer Hawthorne — "The Walk"

Best Hip-Hop Video

• Drake — "Headlines
  "
• Jay-Z & Kanye West featuring Otis Redding — "Otis"
• Sick Team — "Street Wars"
• Tyler, The Creator — "Yonkers
  "

• Arare — "Your Puzzle"
• Pushim — "Messenger"
• SuperHeavy — "Miracle Worker"
• The Heavymanners featuring Rumi — "Breath for Speaker"

Best Dance Video

• David Guetta featuring Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj — "Where Them Girls At"
• James Blake — "Limit to Your Love"
• SBTRKT
  — "Pharaohs"
• Etsuko Yakushimaru & D.V.D. — "Gurugle Earth"

Best Video from a Film

• Bruno Mars — "It Will Rain" (from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1)
• Foo Fighters — "Walk" (from Thor)
• Ziyoou-Vachi — "Disco" (from Moteki)
• Superfly — "Ai wo Kurae" (from Smuggler)

Best Collaboration

• Jay-Z & Kanye West featuring Otis Redding — "Otis"
• Miliyah Kato x Shota Shimizu — "Believe"
• Moves Like Jagger
  "
• Special Others and Kj — "Sailin'"

Best Choreography

• Beyoncé — "Run the World (Girls)
  " (choreography by Frank Gatson, Sheryl Murakami and Jeffrey Page)
• Chris Brown — "Yeah 3x
  "
• LMFAO — "Party Rock Anthem" (choreography by Hokuto Konishi
  )
• Shinee — "Lucifer" (choreography by Rino Okinawa and Jaewon Dancing)

Best Karaokee! Song

Sonar Pocket — "365 Nichi no Love Story."

• Ayaka — "Hajimari no Toki"
• Che'Nelle — "Baby I Love U"
• Judas
  "
• Kana Nishino — "Esperanza"

Live performances

• Linkin Park — "Lies Greed Misery / Numb / Burn It Down"
• 2NE1 — "Scream / I Am the Best"
• Sandaime J Soul Brothers — "1st Place" / "Fighters"
• Tsukema Tsukeru
  "
• Bump of Chicken — "Zero"
• Miliyah Kato — "Aiaiai / Heartbeat"
• Exile — 24karats ~Exile Tribe Special Medley~
• Juju — "Tadaima / Kiseki wo Nozomu Nara..."
• 2PM — "Beautiful / I'm Your Man"
• Spring of Life
  "

Guest celebrities

• Karina — presented Best Pop Video
• Scandal — presented Best R&B Video
• DJ Kaori and World Order — introduced Sandaime J Soul Brothers
• AAA — introduced Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
• Ms. Ooja — presented Best Karaokee! Song
• Daichi Miura — introduced Bump of Chicken
• Beni — presented Best Group Video
• W-inds — introduced Miliyah Kato
• Rola — presented Best New Artist
• Sonar Pocket — introduced Juju
• E-Girls — introduced 2PM
• Anna Tsuchiya — presented Video of the Year
• Nobuaki Kaneko — introduced Perfume

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