Japan in the Worldvision Q4-2022

Worldvision Summer 2022
Country	Japan
National selection
Selection process	Open Nippon
Selection date(s)	Final: 10 June 2022
Selected entrant	Nao Aihara
Selected song	"Lighthouse"
Japan in the Worldvision Song Contest
Summer 2022

Japan participated in the Worldvision Song Contest Summer 2022 in Barcelona, Spain with the song "Lighthouse" performed by Japanese singer Nao Aihara. The Japanese broadcaster NHK organised the national final Open Nippon Summer 2022 in order to select the Japanese entry for the Summer 2022 contest. Six entries competed in the national final, and the winner was announced on 10 June 2022 following the combination of votes from a seven-member international jury panel and international public vote.

Open Nippon Summer 2022 was the 1st edition of the Japanese music competition and took place between 6 June 2022 and 10 June 2022 in Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium). The winner of the contest will be eligible to represent Japan at Worldvision Song Contest Summer 2022.

Format

Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

Open Nippon Summer 2022, organised by Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK World), was held in the format of one final with the participation of six invited compositions released no earlier than 1 January 2021.

Voting

Six members of the jury and the public took part in the voting. Each of the six members of the jury had a set of points: 10, 7, 5, 3, 2 and 1 point. This year curators from Hungary, Kazakhstan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States were invited to take the place of the jury, but on the last day of voting, the United States jury was replaced by a jury from Thailand due to the impossibility of voting. The audience could leave their ratings for each of the selection songs on a specially created poll on the app.webask.io platform. The results of the public vote were translated into a system of points: 20, 14, 10, 3, 2 and 1 point.

Announcement of performers

The introduction of participating performers took place from May 20 to June 4, 2022 in order of performance. Initially, it was assumed that the announcement of the selection participants would be one performer every two days and would end on May 30, 2022. However, due to the situation with the five-day suspension of the Japanese curator from the contest chat, on May 25, 2022, the announcement of the performers for May 26, 28 and 30 was postponed to May 30, June 2 and 4, 2022.

Final

Voting took place from 6 to 8 June 2022. Nao Aihara with song "Lighthouse" won the national contest.

Draw	Artist	Song	Language(s)		Jury						Public		Total	Place
					HUN	KAZ	NLD	MKD	ESP	THA
01	Queen Bee	King Bitch	Japanese a		1	10	3	2	1	10	3	27 votes / 185	30	5
02	NiziU	Chopstick	Japanese, English		2	1	2	3	5	1	3	27 votes / 185	17	6
03	Milet	Fly High	Japanese, English		7	3	1	10	3	7	12	33 votes / 185	43	3
04	AleXa	Xtra	English, Korean		3	5	7	1	7	3	20	35 votes / 185	46	2
05	Pabllo Vittar feat. Rina Sawayama	Follow Me	English		5	7	5	5	2	2	6	30 votes / 185	32	4
06	Nao Aihara	Lighthouse	Japanese, English		10	2	10	7	10	5	12	33 votes / 185	56	1

^a - line in English.

After selection

On 9 June 2022, a couple of hours before the announcement of the results of the competition, it was announced that 185 votes were accepted from 9 voting participants in the audience voting on the poll platform. Based on the voting results, the average score for compositions was 3.426 out of 5.000 maximum points, which is 68.52%. On 10 June 2022, an album of contest compositions was released on the Spotify platform called "Open Nippon Summer 2022".

At Worldvision

As previously known, the representative of Japan qualifies for the final automatically along with the representative of Australia (Big Two). Nao Aihara will perform in the first part of the final.