Okuhana's Tearjerker Songs: Best Crying Songs and Popular Tracks Ranking [2026]

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Birthday – Oku Hanako

“Birthday” is a song featured in Chiba Bank’s commercial “Let’s Draw the Future.” It’s by the popular female singer-songwriter Hanako Oku, known for her poignant love ballads, and was included on her 2009 album “BIRTHDAY.” Conveying the message, “You are a precious being—there’s only one of you in this world,” this moving birthday song is one you’ll want to give to someone you love.

If someone sings so straightforwardly about how special you are on your birthday, anyone would be delighted, wouldn’t they?

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Hanako Oku – Kimi no sora (Sub. Español – Kanji – Romanización)

It’s a lovely song that makes you feel there’s no such thing as a final farewell.

It wraps up all the partings that come with setting off on a new journey, and seems like a piece that any generation could embrace.

If it played as background music at a farewell gathering, you might find yourself captivated.

If there’s someone you absolutely want to see again and want to express that feeling to, try sending them this song!

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Hanako Oku / Christmas Night (FULL Ver.) [Lyric Video]

This is a heartbreak song set at Christmas by singer-songwriter Hanako Oku, who has created many tear-jerking breakup songs.

Released in 2018, it was used in a LINE commercial, so many people may have heard it.

It’s a ballad featuring a beautiful, familiar melody line—one of the hallmarks of her music.

The lyrics depict a man who can’t quite let go of his ex-girlfriend, yet even as he clings to his feelings, he wishes for her happiness.

His straightforward, earnest feelings are deeply moving.

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I want to be loved.Oku Hanako11rank/position

I want to be loved.

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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Oku Hanako – Unrequited Love

A life-sized unrequited-love song from a woman’s perspective.

In this song, the woman’s crush already knows how she feels.

He’s more friendly than before, but she still doesn’t know what he truly thinks.

She doesn’t mind, though—she just hopes that even a little of her feelings will reach him.

That’s how much she loves him, and she can’t let go of those feelings…

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