MTV Video Music Awards Jepang 2008

MTV Video Music Awards Jepang 2008 diadakan pada Sabtu, 31 Mei pada Saitama Super Arena di Saitama, Jepang.

Nominations 
Pemenang berada di tulisan tebal.

Video of the Year 
 Exile — "I Believe"
 Mr. Children — "Irodori"
 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z — "Umbrella"
 Tokyo Incidents — "Osca"
 Kanye West — "Stronger"

Album of the Year 
 Exile — Exile Love
 Ketsumeishi — Ketsunopolice 5
 Kumi Koda — Kingdom
 Avril Lavigne — The Best Damn Thing
 Ne-Yo — Because of You

Best Male Video 
 Chris Brown featuring T-Pain — "Kiss Kiss"
 Ken Hirai — "Fake Star"
 Ne-Yo — "Because of You"
 Tamio Okuda — "Mugen no Kaze"
 Seamo — "Cry Baby"

Best Female Video 
 Fergie — "Big Girls Don't Cry"
 Alicia Keys — "No One"
 Kumi Koda — "Ai no Uta"
 Mika Nakashima — "Life"
 Ai Otsuka — "Peach"

Best Group Video 
 M-Flo Loves Emi Hinouchi, Ryohei, Emyli, Yoshika and Lisa — "Love Comes and Goes"
 Maroon 5 — "Makes Me Wonder"
 Mr. Children — "Irodori"
 Rip Slyme — "I.N.G"
 Sum 41 — "Underclass Hero"

Best New Artist 
 Erika — "Free"
 Motohiro Hata — "Uroko"
 Mika — "Grace Kelly"
 Satomi Takasugi — "Tabibito"
 Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"

Best Rock Video 
 9mm Parabellum Bullet — "Discommunication"
 Foo Fighters — "The Pretender"
 L'Arc-en-Ciel — "Seventh Heaven"
 Linkin Park — "What I've Done"
 Radwimps — "Order Made"

Best Pop Video 
 Fergie — "Clumsy"
 Avril Lavigne — "Girlfriend"
 M-Flo Loves Emi Hinouchi, Ryohei, Emyli, Yoshika and Lisa — "Love Comes and Goes"
 Ai Otsuka — "Peach"
 Yui — "Love & Truth"

Best R&B Video 
 AI — "I'll Remember You"
 Namie Amuro — "Hide & Seek"
 Mary J. Blige featuring Lil Mama — "Just Fine"
 Chris Brown featuring T-Pain — "Kiss Kiss"
 Miliyah Kato featuring Wakadanna — "Lalala"

Best Hip-Hop Video 
 50 Cent featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland — "Ayo Technology (She Wants It)"
 Kreva — "Strong Style"
 Rip Slyme — "I.N.G"
 Kanye West — "Stronger"
 Zeebra featuring Jesse — "Not Your Boyfriend"

Best Reggae Video 
 Fire Ball — "Place in your Heart"
 Sean Kingston — "Beautiful Girls"
 Mavado — "Dreaming"
 Pushim — "Hey Boy"
 Shōnan no Kaze — "Suirenka"

Best Dance Video 
 The Chemical Brothers — "Do It Again"
 Denki Groove — "Shounen Young"
 Justice — "D.A.N.C.E."
 Shinichi Osawa — "Our Song (A Lonely Girl Ver.)"
 Ryukyudisko featuring Beat Crusaders — "Nice Day"

Best Video From a Film 
 Ketsumeishi — "Deai no Kakera" (dari Kage Hinata ni Saku)
 Linkin Park — "What I've Done" (dari Transformers)
 Snow Patrol — "Signal Fire" (dari Spider-Man 3)
 Hikaru Utada — "Beautiful World" (dari Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone)
 Yui — "Love & Truth" (dari Closed Note)

Best Collaboration 
 Beyoncé and Shakira — "Beautiful Liar"
 Yuna Ito x Celine Dion — "A World to Believe In"
 Kumi Koda featuring Tohoshinki — "Last Angel"
 Toshinobu Kubota meets Kreva — "M☆A☆G☆I☆C"
 Timbaland featuring The Hives — "Throw It On Me"

Best Karaokee! Song 
 Exile — "Toki no Kakera"
 Avril Lavigne — "Girlfriend"
 Mika Nakashima — "Life"
 Ne-Yo — "Because of You"
 Shōnan no Kaze — "Suireka"

Red Hot Award 
 Funky Monkey Babys
 Infinity 16
 Megumi
 Satomi Takasugi
 Foxxi MisQ

Best buzz ASIA

Jepang 
 AAA — "Mirage"
 AI — "I'll Remember You"
 Double — "Spring Love"
 Micro — "Hana Uta"
 DJ Ozma — "Tokyo Boogie Back"

Korea Selatan 
 Cherry Filter — "Feel It"
 Clazziquai — "Robotica"
 JYP — "Kiss"
 Leessang — "Ballerino"
 T — "Did You Forget"

Taiwan 
 Eason Chan — "Long time no see"
 Jay Chou — "Cowboy On The Run"
 Andy Lau — "One"
 Wang Leehom — "Falling Leaf Returns to Root"
 Soda green — "Incomparable Beauty"

Special awards

MTV Video Vanguard Award 
 Mariah Carey

MTV Rock The World Award 
 Takeshi Kobayashi and Kazutoshi Sakurai

Live performances 
 Ayaka — "Okaeri"
 Exile — "24 karats-type EX"
 Fergie — "Big Girls Don't Cry"
 Mariah Carey — "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time"
 Nelly and Fergie — "Party People"
 Orange Range — "O2"
 Simple Plan — "When I'm Gone"

Penampilan red carpet 
 Colbie Caillat
 Flo Rida
 Miliyah Kato
 W-inds

Tamu selebriti 

 AAA
 AI
 Namie Amuro
 Aqua Timez
 Asia Engineer
 Bono
 Double
 Foxxi misQ
 Funky Monkey Babys
 Hata Motohiro
 Ikimono-gakari
 Yuna Ito
 KCO
 Rinko Kikuchi
 Tetsuya Komuro
 Leah Dizon

 Shota Matsuda
 Megumi
 Mihimaru GT
 Shun Oguri
 Paris Hilton
 Ruy Ramos
 Seamo
 Shōnan no Kaze
 Suzanne
 Satomi Takasugi
 Verbal from M-Flo
 Akiko Wada
 Dongfeng
 Yu Yamada
 Zeebra
 Aktion aka Claude Maki