MTV Video Music Awards Japan (VMAJ)

The tenth annual MTV Video Music Awards Japan (VMAJ) will be staged as a live international music television event to benefit the Japanese Red Cross entitled MTV VIDEO MUSIC AID JAPAN.
The PR has been huge and this has appeared all over Twitter and the Interweb
MTV Taiwan posted this image of Tokio Hotel in the MTV logo.

Other things they will do in Japan:

We have recieved lots of questions regarding Tokio Hotel's activities in Japan other than the VAMJ, a premium event have been decided!
"The Next premium Night Tokio Hotel in Tokyo Presented by Audi A1" This would be Tokio Hotel's first acoustic performance in Japan. 150 subcribers of this newsletter would be chosen to attend this event. Due to the fact that this event is presented by Audi Japan, the audience is required to be 20 years old and above. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

According to http://tokiohotelstreetteam.co.uk/ and others via @mtvasia on Twitter .. there will be a livestream of the VMAJ Red Carpet preshow available on mtvasia.com/vmaj on 25th June at 1.30pm Singapore time..

1.30pm Singapore time is 6.30am London time... methinks I will be getting up early *groan*

No news about a livestream from the show as yet... I will keep looking

The MTV VMAJ's were primarily a benefit for Japan in its recovery from the devastating Tsunami and Earthquake in March 2011 - results of the award voting is to be announced on 2.7.2011

The performances were great and included Lady Gaga, Tokio Hotel, SHINee, and many more..

So - in order of TH appearance -

The Red Carpet



The Red Lounge Interview ..



The Performance



The Auction



and the pics...




















(with credit to the unknown photographers for taking such great pics.)

You forgot a very nice one:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb101/tokiohotelamerica/2011/06/24_audijapan/bkomg.jpg

A few more pics that have been floating around the internet.. again, all credit to the unknown photographers for their talent and expertise.

Outcome of the Auction



Flea Market for Tohoku - The auction of the Tokio Hotel-Bass ended today! The final bid is 235,900 ¥ (Japanese Yen)!

"The auction of the signed Tokio Hotel-Bass from the "Scream"-Video, which Tokio Hotel have donated for the Flea Market for Tohoku, ended today. ( 2.7.2011) The final bid is 235,900 ¥ (Japanese Yen). The proceeds will go to the Japanese Red Cross Society's efforts in the earthquake- and tsunami-stricken areas of Tohoku."
(source @TokioHotel_Info)


For those interested: at 16.07 on 2.7.2011 the currency rate was the equivalent of..
£1815.87 GBP
$2918.47 USD
2009.21 EU

Good going!!


Additional items for auction include..collectible sets signed by Tokio Hotel.




Auction update - The drum Gustav used in Scream/Schrei video was put up in auction to benefit Japan and raised
$354.20

source: http://www.j-grab.com/auction/jp/page/c305049821/en/

And...

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Congratulations to Tokio Hotel for their Best Rock Video award at the MTV Japan VMA 2011!

now, if I've added it up correctly, that makes...

1 MTV Video Music Awards
4 MTV Video Music Awards Latin America
4 MTV Europe Music Awards
1 MTV Video Music Awards Japan



hmm.. *wanders off to look for the trophy cabinet (aka website) that lists the rest...*

The full results list is as follows:


Best Male Video Award for Best Male Artist Video - Bruno Mars "Just the Way You Are"

Best Female Video Award for Best Female Artist Video - Lady Gaga "Born This Way"

Best Group Video award for Best Group Video - Girls "Genie"

Best New Artist Video Award Best New Artist Video - Justin Bieber "Baby feat. Ludacris"

Best Video of the Year Awards Best Video - Lady Gaga "Born This Way"

Best Rock Video Award for Best Rock Video - Tokio Hotel "Darkside of the Sun"

Best Pop Video award for Best Pop Video - Chris Brown "Thank You"

Best R & B Video Award for Best R & B Video - Rihanna "Only Girl (In the World)"

Best Hip Hop Video Award for Best Hip Hop Video - Eminem "Not Afraid"

Best Reggae Video Award for Best Reggae Video - Aiyazu "Replay"

Best Dance Video award for Best Dance Video - Lady Gaga "Born This Way"

Best Video from a Film Award for Best Film and Video - Avril Lavigne "Alice" ("Alice in Wonderland")

Best Collaboration Video Award for Best Collaboration Video - Eminem "Love the Way You Lie feat. Rihanna"

Best Album of the Year Album of the Year Award - Kana Nishino "to LOVE"

Best Karaokee Award for Best Song Karaoke! Song - Girls "Genie"

Excerpts taken from new video (interview part): Sukkiri - aired 06.07.2011
source Youtube TokioHotelinJapan

A few more pics from Japan..






(with credit to the unknown photographers for taking such great pics.).

(source http://emergingbands.net/)
Published on July 24th, 2011
"A clip of a program about making MTV Video Music Aid Japan was aired not too long ago, and Tokio Hotel are one of the bands that got featured.

Bill talks about how the band designed buttons to sell with the money going to benefit the relief effort in Japan, and he announced they would be selling them again in their online store."

Spoiler:

I have seen a lot of comments saying Bill is wearing thigh high boots here, they arent. They are leggings and he is just wearing ankle boots to make it look like they are thigh high boots. He isnt doing a "pretty woman" just yet

Thank you message for the award:



I could watch this all day... (but where was your ring honey?)

VMAJ backstage pics I didnt include the google translations because they were a little (ok a lot) awkward...

Superb relaxed shots, and the composition in the "mirror reflection" one is really clever