Kadokawa Group Holdings

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Kadokawa Group Holdings, Inc.
株式会社角川グループホールディングス
Type Kabushiki kaisha
Founded April 2, 1954
Headquarters Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key people Tsuguhiko Kadokawa (chairman/CEO)
Akio Honma (president/COO)[1]
Industry Publishing, Films, Video games
Employees 30 (2007)[2]
Parent Kadokawa Shoten
Website kadokawa-hd.co.jp

Kadokawa Group Holdings, Inc. (株式会社角川グループホールディングス Kabushiki kaisha Kadokawa Gurūpu Hōrudinguzu?, formally Kadokawa Holdings) (TYO: 9477) is a Japanese holding company of the Kadokawa Group under Kadokawa Shoten. The company was founded on April 2, 1954 and is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company brings together fifty-five affiliated companies related to Kadokawa Shoten.[3]

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Kadokawa Group Holdings serves to bring together fifty-six affiliated Japanese companies related to Kadokawa Shoten under what is known as the Kadokawa Group.[3] 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;[4] the film and visual companies deal with Japanese feature films and DVD sales of international films and anime;[5] 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.[6] Other aspects of the group is handled by the other business segment which primarily takes care of video games, real estate leasing, and comprises an advertising agency.[7] While there are a large number of companies in the group, the majority of them are subsidiaries of larger companies, leaving only twelve main companies.[3]

[edit] Member companies

  • ASCII Media Works
    • Toy'sworks
  • Building Book Center
  • Fujimi Shobo
  • Kadokawa Cross Media
    • Movie Time
  • Kadokawa Group Publishing
    • Kadokawa Book Service
  • Kadokawa Magazine Group
    • Kadokawa Magazines
    • Kadokawa SS Communications
  • Kadokawa Media House
  • Kadokawa Mobile
    • So-net Kadokawa Link
    • Words Gear
  • Kadokawa Pictures
    • Angel Cinema
    • Asmik Ace Entertainment
    • Cineplex Asia
    • Glovision
    • Japan Film Fund
    • Kadokawa Cineplex
    • Kadokawa Entertainment
    • Kadokawa Holdings China
    • Kadokawa Holdings US
    • Kadokawa Holdings US in Hong Kong
      • Sun Wah Kadokawa
      • Kadokawa International Group Holdings
        • 11 subsidiaries
      • Kadokawa International Publishing
    • Kadokawa Pictures USA
    • Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting
  • Kadokawa Shoten
    • Chara-Ani
    • Kadokawa - J:com Media
    • Kadokawa Digix
    • Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan
    • Kadokawa Media
    • Kadokawa Production
    • Kids Net
    • Taiwan Animate
  • Kadokawa the Television
  • Media Leaves

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kadokawa Group Holdings board of directors. Kadokawa Group Holdings. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
  2. ^ Kadokawa Group Holdings company information (Japanese). Kadokawa Group Holdings. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
  3. ^ a b c Company list under Kadokawa Group Holdings. Kadokawa Group Holdings. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
  4. ^ Publishing businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings. Kadokawa Group Holdings. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
  5. ^ Movie/Visual businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings. Kadokawa Group Holdings. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
  6. ^ Cross media businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings. Kadokawa Group Holdings. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
  7. ^ Other businesses under Kadokawa Group Holdings. Kadokawa Group Holdings. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.

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