Utada Back On Stage

Hikaru Utada announced Sept. 28 she will perform her first concerts in Japan since 2006.

Utada, who is responsible for the biggest-selling album in Japanese pop history, will celebrate the 12th anniversary of her debut single, “Automatic,” with two concerts Dec. 8-9 at the Yokohama Arena.

She will also appear in a TV commercial for Pepsi Nex, her first ad in five years, and will release a new hits collection on Nov. 24.

Utada recently finished a tour of the United States and the United Kingdom. In August she announced that she would go on indefinite hiatus sometime after the first of the year.