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Victor Company Of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, Japan.

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In 1927, JVC (at the time of its founding, JVC Phonograph Corporation) was founded as a Japanese subsidiary of The Victor Talking Machine Company of the United States. Three years later, in 1930, the company built the largest phonograph record factory in the Orient in Yokohama. In 1958, the first stereo LP record was released in Japan and production began at this plant. The company then built another record factory in Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and continued to expand its record production, reaching a cumulative total of 100 million LP records produced by all of its plants in 1972. In 2011, the company was merged into JVC KENWOOD Corporation, which changed its name from JVC KENWOOD HOLDINGS CORPORATION to JVC KENWOOD Corporation, along with Kenwood Corporation and J&K Car Electronics Corporation, ending the 84-year history of Victor Company of Japan as a corporation. The site is now used as a distribution center for Sagawa Express Co.