Japanese breakup songs sung by female artists

366 daysHY

HY “366 Days” MV (MBS “+music” ver.)

Falling in love, dating, breaking up…

When you experience heartbreak, you can’t help but be left with lingering feelings alongside so many memories.

HY’s “366 Days” is a song that expresses those emotions of a broken heart.

Many people can relate to that feeling of heartbreak.

As a masterpiece, it has been covered by many artists and continues to be loved even today.

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Stardust VenusAimer

Stardust Venus

This is a song by Aimer that overlays unforgettable memories of love onto the stars in the night sky and sings of heartache.

The lingering attachment to a precious person who has been lost and the increasingly idealized memories are delicately depicted through a fragile yet resolute voice.

Released as a single in August 2012, it is also included on the acclaimed album “Sleepless Nights.” As the theme song for the drama “Will Such a Luxury as Love Fall Upon Me?”, it enriched the story’s worldview.

The piano-and-strings sound this work possesses is sure to resonate deeply with listeners’ sentimental hearts.

If you listen on a quiet night when you want to be alone with your memories, it will surely wrap your heart in gentle warmth.

two peopleaiko

aiko - “Futari” music video

I tell myself it’s a good thing I realized how they felt before I fell in love, and I accept the end of the romance.

This song by aiko captures that painful bravado.

Despite its up-tempo sound, it sings of the bittersweet moment when you keep getting your hopes up over the other person’s smallest gestures, only to notice their gaze is fixed on someone else.

Released in March 2008, the song reached No.

3 on the Oricon weekly chart and was later used in a Hoyu commercial.

It’s also included on the album “Himitsu.” On nights when you put on a brave face even though you’re really sad, doesn’t listening to this song make you feel like someone’s right beside you saying, “I know exactly how you feel”?

Like this tonightaimyon

Aimyon – Stay Like This Tonight [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

This is a song by Aimyon that portrays a helpless night where you dissolve your true feelings into the bubbles in your glass and surrender yourself to an ambiguous relationship.

Wishing for no more than a modest trigger to feel fulfilled evokes emotions akin to the resignation of unrequited love.

Released in November 2018, the song drew attention as the theme for the drama “We Can’t Become Beasts,” and has been streamed over 100 million times.

If you’ve ever been unable to tell someone how you really feel and felt like you might as well just go with the flow, you’ll surely understand the protagonist’s pain.

Doesn’t it feel like this song gently stays close to a heart burdened with feelings that have nowhere to go?

Please forget it.Yorushika

Yorushika – Please Forget (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

It’s a heartbreak song by Yorushika that tightens your chest with its bittersweet love—the kind that wishes happiness for an ex while saying “please forget me.” Released in July 2024 as the theme song for the drama “GO HOME: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Unidentified Persons Consultation Office,” the track sets gentle melodies against a narrator who recalls precious memories they shared, even as they wish those memories to be forgotten.

Yet behind those words lies the true feeling of “please don’t actually forget,” a confession that’s sure to loosen your tear ducts.

Vocalist suis’s clear, translucent voice conveys this self-sacrificial and contradictory form of love with painfully delicate nuance.

On nights when you want to face the pain of heartbreak alone, listening to this song will feel as if it speaks for you and quietly stays by your side.

A 3 o’clock kissrokudenashi

Rokudenashi “3 o’clock Kiss” / Rokudenashi – 3 o’clock Kiss [Official Music Video]

A poignant, heartrending number that delicately portrays the pain of a love that has ended and the memories that resurface in quiet moments.

Sung by Ninjin, who is active mainly on social media, this track has been beloved since the early days of the project Rokudenashi and was released as a digital single in June 2021.

Lyrics, composition, and arrangement are by the popular Vocaloid producer 40mP.

The subtle emotional shifts that seep through the understated melody create a feeling that tightly grips the listener’s heart.

This piece is also included in the visual works accompanying the album Rokka, scheduled for release in December 2025.

When you find yourself dwelling on days gone by or lying awake at night, its gentle yet ephemeral vocals may softly keep you company.

Time Goes ByEvery Little Thing

「Time goes by」MUSIC VIDEO / Every Little Thing

A million-selling hit from 1998.

If you’re Japanese, there’s hardly anyone who doesn’t know it, right? The lyrics start off drenched in lingering attachment, but by the end they end with a smile and a wish to meet again.

Let’s hope that time will heal everything.