Asmik Ace, Inc., formerly Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc. is a Japanese film production and distribution company. In the past, the company has distributed video games. It was formed in 1997 through a merger between the Asmik Corporation and Ace Entertainment, both of Japan. The name Asmik comes from its three founding companies: Ask, Sumitomo and Kodansha. The company is headquartered on the third floor of the Lapiross Roppongi building in Minato, Tokyo, and is a wholly owned division of Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM).
The Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai. Tōkai is a reference to the geographical region in which the company chiefly operates.
Atlus Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game developer, publisher, arcade manufacturer and distribution company based in Tokyo. A subsidiary of Sega, the company is known for video game series such as Megami Tensei, Persona, Etrian Odyssey, and Trauma Center, as well as Print Club (Purikura) arcade machines. Its corporate mascot is Jack Frost, a snowman-like character from their Shin Megami Tensei series. Outside of video games, the company is known for their Purikura arcade machines, which are selfie photo sticker booths popular in East Asia.
TV Tokyo Corporation, commonly abbreviated as Tere Tō (テレ東), with the call sign JOTX-DTV, is a Japanese commercial broadcast television station. It headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation, itself a subsidiary of Nikkei, Inc., serving as the flagship station of the TX Network. TV Tokyo is one of the five private broadcasters based in Tokyo.
Animate Ltd. is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, video games and manga in Japan. The first and flagship store of Animate was opened in 1983 in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan.
Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. is a Japanese global holding company formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy Corporation in 2004. Both companies are involved in the amusement industry.
iiyama is a brand name of Mouse Computer Corporation. It produces liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors and LED display panels. It was previously an independent Japanese computer electronics company called Iiyama Corporation with its headquarters in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Iiyama was founded in 1972 by Kazuro Katsuyama, named after the city of Iiyama in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The company was bought in January 2006 by MCJ Corporation, which includes Mouse Computer Corporation. The headquarters of iiyama was moved to Europe in October 2008. The CEO since January 2006 has been Takeichi Shinji.
AlphaDream Corporation, Ltd. was a Japanese video game development company founded in 2000 by Tetsuo Mizuno and Chihiro Fujioka in Tokyo, Japan. In partnership with Nintendo, it produced software for the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch, including the Mario & Luigi series. The company's staff included former developers from Square, such as Yoshihiko Maekawa. On October 1, 2019, AlphaDream was shut down after filing for bankruptcy, and on February 28, 2020, AlphaDream ceased to exist as a company.
Sun Corporation, operating under the name Sunsoft, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher.
Joypolis is a chain of indoor amusement parks created by Sega and run by CA Sega Joypolis. Beginning on July 20, 1994 with the original location sited in Yokohama, Japan, Joypolis centers have since opened in several cities in Japan and later China. The parks feature arcade games and amusement rides based on Sega's intellectual properties, original themes, and licensed franchises. Alongside the predecessor Galbo venues and the overseas spin-offs SegaWorld London and Sega World Sydney, they were officially referred to under the "Amusement Theme Park" or "ATP" concept by Sega in the 1990s.
Sega World, sometimes stylized as SegaWorld, is a formerly international chain of amusement arcades and entertainment centres created by Sega. Though not the first venues to be developed by the company, with operations dating back to the late 1960s in Japan, it would come to involve some of their most prolific and successful examples in the 1990s and 2000s. During their peak period in the 1990s, there were likely at least several hundred Sega World locations across the world.
Marvelous Entertainment Inc. (MMV) was a multinational corporation that produced animation, music, video games and television series. MMV is known for its involvement in the Story of Seasons series. They merged with AQ Interactive in 2011 and became Marvelous AQL; the "AQL" was dropped later on.
iXIT Corporation, formerly known as Index Corporation, is a Japanese corporate information and communications technology company owned by Sawada Holdings.
TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd., formerly known as the Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd., also known as Tokyo Movie or Kyokuichi Tokyo Movie, is a Japanese animation studio established on October 22, 1946.
Shinseisha Co., Ltd. was a Japanese publisher founded in 1971 and who filed for bankruptcy in 1999. It originally published learning reference books, but it is more known for its 1986 arcade game magazine Gamest. The representative was Hiroshi Kato. The company's capital was 10 million yen. Major subsidiaries of Shinseisha were Marugeya Ltd. and Shinkoe Publishing Ltd..
Dimple Entertainment was a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in November 2005 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. They released a number of games beginning with Ayakashibito in August 2006, and would go on to develop and release others for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS. The company worked with other developers such as HuneX, Microvision, and Vanillaware before closing its doors in August 2010.
Happinet Corporation is an entertainment company.
Wolfsbane Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio based in Tokyo founded in 2017. The company focuses on organizing and executing animation. Wolfsbane also contributes to copyrighting, trademarking, and rights to anything they create, or assets they may use like audio and videos. Wolfsbane Co., Ltd has made three television series between the years of 2020- 2022, making them a newer animation studio. The names of the TV shows are Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time, Banished from the Hero's Party, and Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time: Super Extra. Wolfsbane Co also has a large number of partners who contribute to different things. Lastly Wolfsbane Co has done a few changes to their business, in 2021 there was a change of CEO, Kohei Motokawa. They also relocated their headquarters in 2023 to a different location in Tokyo.
