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Okukhanako’s Ballad Songs: Popular Song Ranking [2026]

A singer-songwriter from Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture.

She graduated from the Faculty of Music, Department of Music at Toho College of Music and has been deeply involved in music since her student days.

She also has proven skill as a radio personality, and her live performances and compositions are characterized by piano- and keyboard-based solo performances.

She shot to fame when she was chosen to perform the theme song for the animated film “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.”

This time, we’ll take a closer look at her!

Based on fan feedback submitted to our site so far, we’ve researched her most popular songs and will introduce them in a ranking format.

Okukhanako’s Ballad Songs: Popular Song Ranking [2026]

I want to be loved.Oku Hanako8rank/position

A song that tenderly embraces the earnest wish to be loved.

Created by singer-songwriter Okuhanako, it appears on the album “vol.best,” released in April 2005 during her indie days.

The piece gives voice, over a quiet piano melody, to a piercing question: can we keep living by clinging to the memories of being loved, even when we feel hollowed out by loneliness? Her voice—praised as one that can move you to tears on sound alone—seems to gently scoop up feelings that words can’t express.

The song distills the power of her music, which speaks straight to the heart—this is the artist who once sold 488 CDs in a single day at a street performance.

On nights when you long to be loved deeply by someone, listening alone in silence may kindle a warm light in your heart.

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