, also known as in Japan, is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as
anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...
and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where
Sony Music Entertainment
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operates the
RCA Victor
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label.
History
*April 1972: is spun off as a subsidiary of JVC.
*September 30, 1982: JVC Musical Industries, Inc. is founded in the U.S.
*February 1984: The sales and marketing department of JVC is spun off as .
*January 1990: JVC Musical Industries announces its first video game release will be '' Boulder Dash''.
*October 30, 1991: JVC Musical Industries Europe, Ltd. is founded.
*April 1993: Nihon AVC and Victor Musical Industries merge and the name is changed to
*October 1, 1996: Victor Interactive Software takes over video game-related activities after Pack-In-Video is merged with Victor Entertainment.
*May 1, 1997: JVC Musical Industries is renamed to JVC Music, Inc.
*May 14, 1997: JVC Musical Industries Europe is renamed to JVC Music Europe, Ltd.
*February 24, 1999: JVC Music, Inc. is dissolved
*March 1999: Victor Entertainment's main office is moved.
*March 31, 2003: Victor Interactive Software is acquired by Marvelous Entertainment and becomes Marvelous Interactive.
*May 8, 2006: JVC Music Europe is dissolved.
*April 2014: Victor Entertainment's corporate name is changed to JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment Corporation.
Labels
Records
* AB-Victor France
*Aosis Records
*CJ Victor Entertainment (joint venture with
CJ E&M
CJ E&M (Hangul: 씨제이이앤엠, an initialism for CJ Entertainment & Media) is a South Korean entertainment and mass media company created by CJ Group in 2011. As of July 2018, CJ E&M is a division of CJ ENM.
History
CJ E&M was established ...
of South Korea)
*Cypress Showers
*ELA Music (
Kaela Kimura
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Career
Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father, Kimura started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine ''Seventeen''. ...
's label)
*Getting Better
*Globe Roots
*Happy House
*Hihirecords (for babies and kids)
*Invitation
*JVC Entertainment (production, artist managements, and overseas products)
**Flying Dog (animation-related products)
*FlyingStar Records (formerly BabeStar Label)
**rookiestar
*JVC Jazz
*JVC World Sounds
*Mob Squad ( Dragon Ash Private Label)
*Nafin
*Speedstar International
*Speedstar Records
*Taishita (Southern All Stars Private Label, joint venture with Amuse, Inc.)
*Victor
FNC Music
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, co-distributed with
Warner Music Japan
Warner Music Group's labels include the following.
Flagship labels
*Atlantic Records
*Elektra Records
* Parlophone Records
*Warner Records
Atlantic Records Group
* 1st & 15th Entertainment
* All Money In
* Artist Partners Group
* Asylum Rec ...
)
*Bad News
*
D-topia Entertainment
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* Revolver Music
*Substance
* Teichiku Entertainment (Subsidiary of Victor Entertainment until 2015.)
**BAIDIS
** Be-tam-ing
**Continental
**Imperial Records
**Imperial International
**KIDSDOM (Animation Related Label)
** MONAD ( Haruomi Hosono Private Label)
** Non-Standard(Haruomi Hosono Produce Label)
**Overseas Records
**PROGRAM ( Katsumi Tanaka Private Label ~2000)
** TOHO Records (Master Rights Only)
**Takumi Note
**
Teichiku Records
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**TMC Music
***246 Records
**Union Records
***Union Black Records
*
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*GAGA Communications
*MediaNet Pictures
*SPO Entertainment
* TBS Video
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Listed alphabetically by group or first name. Names are in Western order (given name, family name).
*
Nujabes
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*
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At ...
(Also under
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9nine
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History 2005-10: Origin and debut
In Sep ...
Akino Arai
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Alesha Dixon
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Buck-Tick
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(1987–1996; 2016–present under their vanity label Lingua Sounda)
* Chanmina (2016–2017) (Warner Music Japan 2018–present)
* Chiaki Ishikawa (flying DOG)
*
CNBLUE
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Warner
Warner can refer to:
People
* Warner (writer)
* Warner (given name)
* Warner (surname)
Fictional characters
* Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner, stars of the animated television series ''Animaniacs''
* Aaron Warner, a character in '' Shatter Me ...
Daigo☆Stardust
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Death from Above 1979
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Hiromi Iwasaki
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Her representative songs are "" — "Rom ...
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Jero
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Junko Sakurada
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*
Kaela Kimura
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Career
Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father, Kimura started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine ''Seventeen''. ...
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Kiroro
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History
Kiroro debuted in 1996 as an independent band, and later made their major debut in 1998 with the song "". They performed on ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen'' in 1998, 1999 and 2001. ...
Kyūso Nekokami
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Biography
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Maaya Sakamoto Maaya may refer to:
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*
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Megumi Nakajima
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(flying DOG)
*
Merry
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A happy person with a jolly personality People
* Merry (given name)
* Merry (surname)
Music
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* ''Merry'' (EP), an EP by Gregory Douglass
* "Merry" (song), by American power pop band Magna ...
*
Miho Hatori
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*
Mika Arisaka
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Minmi
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Miz Miz or the Miz may refer to:
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Childhood
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Rurika Yokoyama
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Scandal
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Shunsuke Kiyokiba
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Avex
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Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
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Early life
Kusanagi grew up in Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan.
Career Music
In 1987, at age 13, Kusanagi auditioned to enter John ...
SMAP
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Kazuyuki Sekiguchi
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VIXX
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(flying DOG)
*
Yuki Kajiura
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Places
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* Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan
* Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan
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*
Yukio Hashi
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Discography
* : Co-starring with Sayuri Yoshinaga (1962)
*
* Itako Gasa
Filmography Film
His filmography includes 36 films: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p00848 ...
Sambomaster
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History
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Video games
;Victor Music/Ent.
;Victor/JVC Music
;JVC Music Europe
See also
* Subsidiaries of
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