After the vocalist recovered, the band returned to the stage with a one night-only live titled MR.CHILDREN IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD ON DEC 21, which was recorded and later sold as a DVD. Children Tour 2002 Dear Wonderful World that was scheduled for July was cancelled as Sakurai was hospitalized with cerebellum blockage, causing the band to pause all group activities and go on a short hiatus. Kimi ga suki, a song on the album, won the band the prestige of the Best Video of the Year award at the first ever MTV Video Music Awards Japan. On May 10, 2002, which was also their 10th anniversary, Mr.Children released their 10th album IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD which once again peaked the Oricon charts. The band, however, recovered their sales figures in 2001 when two best-of albums were released simultaneously, garnering over four million in combined sales. In 2000, their ninth album Q didn't sell nearly as well as some of its predecessors, becoming their first album since Atomic Heart to sell under a million copies. I'll be, one of the songs on the album, was selected later on as an official theme for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Mr.Children started actively appearing in music shows in 1999 and released DISCOVERY, their first album in nearly two years, sweeping up the Rock Album of the Year award at the 14th Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards.
That year, the band went on to release another single titled Owarinaki tabi which was used as the theme song for Japanese drama "Naguru onna" and remains a favorite hit amongst fans today. The break lasted less than a year and Mr.Children got back together on October 21, 1998. In the meantime, Nakagawa and Suzuki created a session band called Hayashi Hideo of which members from the pillows and My Little Lover participated in. Instead of breaking up, however, the members decided to take a small break. Since the album appeared to be a best-of, rumors of a disbandment arose. In 1997, the band released the album Bolero and while it contained eleven songs, five of them were already released before as singles. Shinkai was more or less a test of their popularity and it passed with flying colors, selling more than three million copies and clinching the Best Album award at the 11th Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards. Mr.Children returned to the scene in 1996 with a new single, which was followed by the album, Shinkai.
Afterwards, the band took some time off to travel in America and Europe.
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During the tour, the band filmed a movie titled " MR.CHILDREN in FILM" that made its way to theatres in June the same year, documenting their history thus far. In order to raise awareness of the campaign, the band went on a month-long tour named LIVE UFO '95 ROCK OPERA Acoustic Revolution with Orchestra Kiseki no hoshi where they performed many cover songs from artists like The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. They participated actively in the fight against AIDS by jointly producing Kiseki no hoshi, the theme song for the Act Against AIDS campaign, with Keisuke Kuwata of Southern All Stars.
Not forgetting to do their part for society, Mr.Children lent themselves to several charitable causes in 1995. While touring, the band composed many new songs and their number one all-time fan favorite, Tomorrow never knows, was from that era. Guided by their producer Kobayashi Takeshi who had many new conceptual ideas for tours, Mr.Children set foot upon even greater paths of success, eventually heading towards a few lives at Nippon Budokan. Their next release, the album Atomic Heart, turned out to be another huge achievement, becoming their highest selling album to date. The band's major debut came in 1992 with the mini album Everything and their song CROSS ROAD was used as the opening theme for a very popular dorama, "Dousoukai." Their first big break came in the form of their 1994 innocent world single, which raked in close to two million copies in sales and won the Song of the Year award at the 36th annual Japan Record Awards. Mr.Children's music was at first politically oriented amongst other topics. The band had changed their name several times before eventually settling for Mr.Children. Mr.Children started off as a band of three school friends, originally called Beatnik, consisting of Sakurai Kazutoshi on vocals, Tahara Kenichi on guitar and Nakagawa Keisuke on bass while drummer Suzuki Hideya joined in later on.
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