a&r Yasuyuki Hirata
alto saxophone Nigel Hitchcock
arranged by, co-producer Jerry Hey
arranged by, co-producer Larry Williams
arranged by, co-producer Richard Niles
art direction, design Katsuhiro Ito
bass Andy Pask
bass Neil Stubenhaus
concept by [original sound & visual concept] Mayumi Horikawa
drums John Robinson
drums Neil Wilkinson
engineer [assistant] David Browne
engineer [assistant] Jim Champagne
engineer [assistant] Paul N.J. Ottosson
engineer [assistant] Tracii D. Sherman
engineer [tracking] Gary Stout
executive-producer Nao Matsuda
flugelhorn, trumpet Jerry Hey
flute, tenor saxophone Tim Garland
guitar Michael Thompson
guitar Tim Cansfield
hair, make-up Koji Deguchi
illustration [cover] Satomi Onodera
keyboards, tenor saxophone Larry Williams
leader [strings] Gavyn Wright
management [artist] Chikara Nogami
mastered by Yuka Koizumi
percussion Michael Fisher
photography by Christina Jansen
photography by Hideo Oida
photography by Steve Hickey
piano, keyboards Malcolm Maddock
producer [production associate] Hiromi Kikukawa
producer [production associate] Neville Farmer
producer [production associate] Shun Suzuki
producer [production associate] Steve Flood
programmed by [additional synth programming] Erik Hanson
programmed by [additional synth programming] Srđan Kurpjel
promotion [artist] Kazunori Serizawa
promotion [artist] Kenji Takagiwa
promotion [artist] Masatoshi Zushi
promotion [artist] Toshio Yokota
recorded by, mixed by Eric Rudd
recorded by, mixed by Helen Woodward
strings Belinda Burt
strings Ben Cruft
strings George Robertson
strings Jim McLeod
strings Jonathan Evans-Jones
strings Katie Wilkinson
strings Martin Loveday
strings Patrick Kiernan
strings Paul Kegg
strings Perry Montague-Mason
strings Peter Oxer
strings Rita Manning
strings Roger Garland
strings Stephen Tees
stylist Masaru Kondo
supervised by [artwork] Tomio Watanabe
supervised by [project planning & supervision] Chikara Nogami
trombone Richard Edwards
trumpet John Barclay
written-by, producer Mayumi Horikawa
Record Company For Life Records, Inc.
Recorded At Willyworld West
Recorded At Ocean Way Recording
Recorded At Castle Oaks Studios
Recorded At Ocean Studios
Recorded At Master Rock Studios
Mixed At Master Rock Studios
Mastered At Onkio Haus
Recorded in LA on July 25-31, Aug 23-26, and Aug 29/30, and in London on Aug 2-5 and Aug 26-Sept 1.