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Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

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Japanese record company, incorporated in April 1991. Known in Japanese as 株式会社ソニー・ミュージックエンタテインメント. [b]Please do not enter as a label.[/b] Its predecessor was [l=CBS/Sony Records Inc.], established in 1968 as a Tokyo-based 50/50 joint venture between Sony Corporation and U.S. conglomerate CBS to distribute the latter's music releases in Japan. In August 1973, the company was renamed to [l=CBS/Sony Inc.], and in 1983 to [l=CBS/Sony Group Inc.] In March 1988, four wholly owned subsidiaries were folded into CBS/Sony Group: [l266820], [l42982] Inc., [l276425] and [l401642] International. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, [l38531]. Sony Music Japan releases now appear on Columbia or Epic in North America. Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. is wholly owned by the [l353657] of Japan and independent from the US-based Sony Music Entertainment Inc. which is owned by [l128564]. Many Japanese CDs from 1991 till 2007 have a mould manufacturing print around the center hole in the HUB as '[b]SMJ[/b]' - please use: 'Pressed By' in LCCN. Mastering SID codes registered to this company were L271-L280 with mould codes prefixed IFPI 45xx.