Rain’s first single in Japan “Sad Tango,” which will be released on January 25th, is chosen as the ending theme for a music chart show on Japanese television. Count Down TV, a music chart show on TBS, is one of Japan’s major music chart show that has been aired for more than 10 years. As “Sad Tango” is chosen as the ending theme for the television show, Rain is expected to enjoy significant promotional effect for his music to be released for the first time in Japan. Rain’s Japanese single is known to contain 4 tracks; “Sad Tango,” the title song, “Slowly” and two instrumental versions of the two songs. As the album is targeted for the Japanese market, the producing staff of the album focused on maintaining Rain’s unique colors as well as adopting some of J-Pop styles. Ahead of the release of his first Japanese single album, Rain introduced to the Japanese public the collection of best hit songs, “Early Works,” on December 7th, 2005. Rain will depart for Japan on January 20th and focus on promotional activities of his single album.