NHK Announces Kohaku Line-Up: Big Bang, KARA And Girls Generation Were Not Invited

The official NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen line-up was released today and although there was much buzz about Big Bang, KARA and Girls Generation being invited — they were not included this year. Korean media reported this morning that Big Bang would officially be attending but that was proven to be false.
There’s always next year! The full line-up is below.

Red Team
* aiko
* Angela Aki
* Ikimono Gakari
* Sayuri Ishikawa
* Kana Uemura
* AKB48
* Miyuki Kawanaka
* Kumiko
* Kumi Koda
* Natsuko Godai
* Sachiko Kobayashi
* Fuyumi Sakamoto
* Yoshimi Tendo
* DREAMS COME TRUE
* Mitsuko Nakamura
* Kana Nishino
* Ayumi Hamasaki
* Perfume
* Ayaka Hirahara
* Nana Mizuki
* Kaori Mizumori
* Akiko Wada

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White Team
* Arashi
* Hiroshi Itsuki
* HY
* EXILE
* NYC
* Yuzo Kayama
* Saburo Kitajima
* Hiromi Go
* Kobukuro
* SMAP
* TOKIO
* Hideaki Tokunaga
* AAA
* Kiyoshi Hikawa
* FUNKY MONKEY BABYS
* Masaharu Fukuyama
* flumpool
* Takashi Hosokawa
* Porno Graffiti
* Shinichi Mori
* Yusuke
* L’Arc~en~Ciel

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Credit: MTV K