Japan

Japan made its debut in the seventh edition of the contest. Their best result to date is the ninth place in the seventh edition with Sakura Kiss and the song "Chieko Kawabe".

Contestants

 * XX on Semi-finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be due to the fact that the country was an automatic qualifier or that the edition didn't have semi-finals.
 * XX on Finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt to qualify to the final.