Jump to content

Kadokawa Key-Process

From IdeaWazaWiki

Template:Infobox company Kadokawa Corporation (株式会社KADOKAWA Kabushiki-gaisha Kadokawa?) is a subsidiary of Kadokawa Dwango Corporation, and is the parent company of the Kadokawa Group companies, which brings together several affiliated companies related to Kadokawa Shoten.

History

The company was founded on April 2, 1954 as Kadokawa Shoten. It was renamed Kadokawa Holdings on April 1, 2003, transferring the existing publishing businesses to Kadokawa Shoten Publishing. The company was again renamed Kadokawa Group Holdings on July 1, 2006. The company inherited the management and integration businesses within Kadokawa Shoten Publishing in January 2007. The magazine businesses were transferred to the Kadokawa Magazine Group. The company was renamed Kadokawa Corporation on June 22, 2013. On October 1, 2013, nine companies in the Kadokawa Group were merged into Kadokawa Corporation. Eight of them operate now as brand companies. Kadokawa Production was dissolved and integrated into the General IP Business Headquarters.[1][2]

On May 14, 2014, it was announced that Kadokawa Corporation and Dwango, the owner of Niconico, would merge on October 1, 2014, and form the new holding company Kadokawa Dwango. Both Kadokawa and Dwango became subsidiaries of the new company.[3][4] In February 2019, Kadokawa Dwango announced that Dwango would now be a direct subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation in a reorganization of the company.[5]

Subsidiaries

Kadokawa Corporation serves to bring together several affiliated Japanese companies related to Kadokawa Shoten under what is known as the Kadokawa Group.[6] These companies are of three types: publishing, film and visuals, and cross media. The publishers primarily deal with books, bunkobon paperbacks, manga, and visual media magazines;[7] the film and visual companies deal with Japanese feature films and DVD sales of international films and anime;[8] the cross media companies deal with digital content, urban information and television program information magazines, along with information transmission combining paper media, the Internet, and mobile phones.[9] Other aspects of the group are handled by the other business segment which primarily takes care of video games, real estate leasing, and comprises an advertising agency.[10]

Template:Col begin Template:Col 2

Brand companies

Publication

  • Building Book Center
    • Chara-ani Corporation
  • Bookwalker
  • Choubunsha
  • Building Book Center Co.
  • Comic Walker
  • Production Ace
  • eb Creative

Films and visuals

Template:Col 2

Group media

  • K.Sense
  • Movie Walker
  • Dwango
  • Kadokawa Media House
    • Movie Ticket
  • Kids Net
  • Daihyakka News
  • GzBRAIN
  • T Gate
  • Docomo Anime Store
  • Smile Edge

Overseas

  • Kadokawa Holdings US
  • Kadokawa Holdings US in Hong Kong
  • Kadokawa Holdings Asia
  • Kadokawa Hong Kong
  • Kadokawa Taiwan Corporation
  • Taiwan Animate
  • Kadokawa Contents Academy
  • Guangzhou Tianwen Kadokawa Animation and Comics
  • Sun Wah Kadokawa
  • Kadokawa Amarin
  • Gempak Starz (Malaysia)
  • Yen Press (51%)

Others

  • ATX
  • FromSoftware[11]
  • Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories
  • Kadokawa Games
  • Kadokawa Contents Academy

Template:Col end

Former subsidiaries

  • Asmik Ace
  • Kadokawa Entertainment: On November 1, 2009, Kadokawa Entertainment was merged into Kadokawa Pictures.
  • Kadokawa Group Publishing: On April 1, 2013, Kadokawa Group Publishing was merged into Kadokawa Group Holdings.
  • Kadokawa J:COM Media: Established in November 2005 as a joint venture between Kadokawa Shoten and Jupiter Telecommunications.[12] It was eliminated in June 2010.
  • So-net Kadokawa Link: Established on June 27, 2007 with So-net Entertainment (43.5%), Kadokawa Mobile (43.5%), and Dentsu E-link[13] (13.0%).[14]
  • Kadokawa Mobile and Movie Gate: On October 1, 2009, Kadokawa Mobile merged with Movie Gate to form Kadokawa Contents Gate.[15]
  • Kadokawa Production: On October 1, 2013, the company was dissolved and integrated in Kadokawa Corporation.
  • MediaLeaves: On January 10, 2010, MediaLeaves was merged into Enterbrain.[16]
  • NTT Prime Square
  • Sarugakucho: Became part of Kadokawa Group Holdings under Enterbrain during the ASCII acquisition. On March 31, 2010, Pole To Win announced that it has acquired Sarugakucho.[17]
  • Words Gear: On September 26, 2006, Matsushita Electric Industrial announced the establishment of Words Gear with Kadokawa Mobile and Tokyo Broadcasting System, effective on October 2, 2006.[18] On September 30, 2010, Kadokawa Group Holdings announced merging Words Gear into Kadokawa Contents Gate, with Kadokawa Contents Gate as the surviving company, effective on January 1, 2011.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Kadokawa to Merge 9 Subsidiaries Into 1 Company". Anime News Network. March 28, 2013. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-03-28/kadokawa-to-merge-9-subsidiaries-into-1-company. Retrieved on October 8, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Notice of Absorption-Type Merger of Consolidated Subsidiaries and Partial Amendments to the Trade Name and the Articles of Incorporation" (PDF). Kadokawa Corporation. March 28, 2013. http://ir.kadokawa.co.jp/investor/5-20130328.pdf. Retrieved on October 9, 2013. 
  3. ↑ Schilling, Mark (May 14, 2014). "Kadokawa and Dwango to Merge". Variety. https://variety.com/2014/digital/asia/kadokawa-and-dwango-to-merge-1201181747/. Retrieved on April 13, 2015. 
  4. ↑ "Publisher Kadokawa, Internet firm Dwango complete merger". The Japan Times. October 1, 2014. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/01/business/corporate-business/publisher-kadokawa-internet-firm-dwango-complete-merger/. Retrieved on April 13, 2015. 
  5. ↑ Ressler, Karen. "Nobuo Kawakami Steps Down as Kadokawa Dwango President". https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-02-15/nobuo-kawakami-steps-down-as-kadokawa-dwango-president/.143351. Retrieved on February 16, 2019. 
  6. ↑ "Error: no Template:Para specified when using {{cite web}}" (in Japanese). Kadokawa Group Holdings. http://ir.kadokawa.co.jp/company/group.php. Retrieved on November 10, 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Publishing businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings". Kadokawa Group Holdings. http://www.kadokawa-hd.co.jp/ir/annual/2007/04/index.html. Retrieved on November 21, 2009. 
  8. ↑ "Movie/Visual businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings". Kadokawa Group Holdings. http://www.kadokawa-hd.co.jp/ir/annual/2007/05/index.html. Retrieved on November 21, 2009. 
  9. ↑ "Cross media businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings". Kadokawa Group Holdings. http://www.kadokawa-hd.co.jp/ir/annual/2007/06/index.html. Retrieved on November 21, 2009. 
  10. ↑ "Other businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings". Kadokawa Group Holdings. http://www.kadokawa-hd.co.jp/ir/annual/2007/07/index.html. Retrieved on November 21, 2009. 
  11. ↑ "Report: Kadokawa Acquires Dark Souls Developers From Software". Silliconera. April 28, 2014. http://www.siliconera.com/2014/04/28/report-kadokawa-acquires-dark-souls-developers-software/. Retrieved on May 21, 2014. 
  12. ↑ "角川ジェイコム・メディア 「J:COM Walker」創刊 J:COM さいたま、J:COM 相模原・大和 各サービスエリアで8 月に発行" (in Japanese). PR Times. June 14, 2007. Archived from the original on April 4, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150404212301/http://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001527.000000000.html. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 
  13. ↑ "Error: no Template:Para specified when using {{cite web}}" (in Japanese). Cyber Communications. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110713074044/http://www.cci.co.jp/special/newsrelease/pdf/2003_0624_1.pdf. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 
  14. ↑ "Error: no Template:Para specified when using {{cite web}}" (in Japanese). So-net Entertainment. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130412090047/http://www.so-net.ne.jp/corporation/release/2007/pr070626.pdf. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 
  15. ↑ "Error: no Template:Para specified when using {{cite web}}" (in Japanese). Kadokawa Group Holdings. http://www.kadokawa-hd.co.jp/topics/20091001.pdf. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 
  16. ↑ "MediaLeaves, Inc. announcement" (in Japanese). MediaLeaves. Archived from the original on October 28, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101028104044/http://www.medialeaves.co.jp/. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 
  17. ↑ "Error: no Template:Para specified when using {{cite web}}" (in Japanese). Pole To Win. Archived from the original on July 19, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130719075221/http://www.ptw.co.jp/news/sarugakucho.pdf. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 
  18. ↑ "角川・松下電器・TBS 3社が電子書籍事業会社 「ワーズギア株式会社」設立で合意 ～読書端末とコンテンツを提供～" (in Japanese). Panasonic. http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn060926-2/jn060926-2.html. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 
  19. ↑ "Error: no Template:Para specified when using {{cite web}}" (in Japanese). Kadokawa Group Holdings. http://www.kadokawa-hd.co.jp/topics/20100930.pdf. Retrieved on April 11, 2012. 

Template:Authority control

Template:Kadokawa Dwango Template:FromSoftware

Retrieved from "https://ideawaza.com/index.php?title=Kadokawa_Key-Process&oldid=81374"