Japan in the GreatVision Song Contest 10

Japan participates in the GreatVision Song Contest 10 in Los Angeles, the United States. After the sad non-qualification of 3-nen E-gumi Utatan in Pyongyang, NHK decided to use the national selection as the song selection method again. This time five most overused Japanese song ever in the song contest will compete for being the Japanese entry.
After the performances in Tokyo, with 47% of the votes, Perfume won the selection and will represent Japan with the song "Pick Me Up".
== Entry selection ==
Five artists submitted their songs to the NHK committee. The winning song is highlighted with gold.
No.	Song 	Artist(s) 	Lyricist(s) 	Composer(s) 	Countries voted	Rank	Percentage(s)
01 	Pick Me Up 	Perfume 	Yasutaka Nakata 	Yasutaka Nakata	 	1 	47%
02 	Mint 	Namie Amuro	Andreas Oberg, Emyli, Maria Marcus, Tiger	Oberg, Marcus 	 	3 	16%
03 	Cry 	GARNiDELiA 	MARiA 	toku 	 	2 	21%
04 	Karate 	BABYMETAL 	Yuyoyuppe, Yuppemetal 	Kobametal 	 	4 	11%
05 	Mighty Long Fall	ONE OK ROCK	Takahiro Morita, John Fledmann 	John Fledmann 	 	5 	5%