Kadokawa Group Holdings

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
Industry Publishing, Films, Video games
Founded April 2, 1954
Headquarters Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key people Tsuguhiko Kadokawa (chairman/CEO)
Tatsuo Sato (president/COO)[1]
Employees 46 (2009)[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 43 affiliated companies related to Kadokawa Shoten.[3]

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Kadokawa Group

Kadokawa Group Holdings serves to bring together 43 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 are 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]

Member companies

  • ASCII Media Works
  • Building Book Center
  • Chukei Publishing
    • Shin-Jinbutsuoraisha
  • Fujimi Shobo
  • Kadokawa Contents Gate
    • Wordsgear
  • Kadokawa Games
  • Kadokawa Group Publishing
  • Kadokawa Holdings US
    • Kadokawa Shuppan Hanbai
  • Kadokawa Media Management
    • Kadokawa Digix
    • Kadokawa Magazines
    • Kadokawa Marketing
      • Movietime
    • Kadokawa Media House
    • Kadokawa SS Communications
  • Kadokawa Pictures
    • Glovision
    • Japan Film Fund
    • Kadokawa Cineplex
    • Kadokawa Entertainment
  • Kadokawa Production
  • Kadokawa Shoten Publishing
    • Chara-Ani
    • Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan
    • Kadokawa Holdings China
    • Kadokawa Holdings US in Hong Kong
    • Kadokawa Intercontinental Group
    • Kadokawa Intercontinental Publishing Asia
    • Kadokawa Media (Taiwan)
  • Media Factory
  • MediaLeaves

Affiliates

  • Asmic Ace Entertainment
  • Kadokawa J:com Media
  • Kids Net
  • Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting
  • So-net Kadokawa Link
  • T-Gate
  • Taiwan Animate

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