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is fifth single by Japanese recording artist Kana Nishino, taken from her debut album, Love One. (2009). It contains a guest verse from Japanese rapper Wise and was released by SME Records on March 18, 2009. "Tookutemo" was composed by Giorgio Cancemi and was collaboratively written by Nishino and Wise. Musically, the song is a pop ballad influenced by R&B music and is based it off of both Nishino's and Wise's own experiences on the long-distance relationship topic. The song was released on Nishino's twentieth birthday.

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2009-03-18

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is fifth single by Japanese recording artist Kana Nishino, taken from her debut album, Love One. (2009). It contains a guest verse from Japanese rapper Wise and was released by SME Records on March 18, 2009. "Tookutemo" was composed by Giorgio Cancemi and was collaboratively written by Nishino and Wise. Musically, the song is a pop ballad influenced by R&B music and is based it off of both Nishino's and Wise's own experiences on the long-distance relationship topic. The song was released on Nishino's twentieth birthday.

"Tookutemo" received positive reviews from most music critics, some of whom considered it to be a highlight from her discography. Commercially, the song is widely considered to be her breakthrough. It became her first single to crack the top 50 of the Oricon Singles Chart by peaking at number 40. The song also peaked within the top 20 of the Japan Hot 100 and received a double platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for selling over 500,000 legal downloads in the country; becoming her first work to receive a certification. To promote the single, Nishino included it on several of her concert tours.

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