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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 also working as a subsidiary of TY Limited Incorporated.

Its chairman is Tom Yoda, ex-chairman of Avex Group.

Domestic

• Funky Monkey Babys
  Funky monkey babys
  is a Japanese band grouped in 2004 under the record company Dreamusic, Inc. Their music is mostly hip hop, but is also inspired by pop and rock music. All members in the group are from Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan. They are known for featuring celebrities in their promotion videos and singles jackets...
  
  
• Yōichi Aoyama
  Yoichi Aoyama
  Aoyama Yōichi is a male Japanese popular music artist who started his career as a member of GRANDFATHERS.-Singles:* 'Saigo ha Nudo' * 'STARLAB' * 'Nanpasen no Seira' * 'Come and Go'...
  
  
• Yūzō Kayama
  Yuzo Kayama
  is a Japanese popular musician and film star, born on 11 April 1937. His father, Ken Uehara, was a film star during the 1930s. Yuzo Kayama became a big star in the 1960s in the Wakadaishō film series....
  
  
• Hiroko Nakamura
  Hiroko Nakamura
  is a Japanese pianist. She is the youngest, and the second Japanese prizewinner at the 7th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition...
  
  
• Ayaka Hirahara
• Ryoko Moriyama
  Ryoko Moriyama
  , is a Japanese folk and jazz singer. Her father is Hisashi Moriyama, a pioneer of Japanese jazz. Her son Naotaro Moriyama is a singer. Her first cousin Hiroshi Kamayatsu is also a musician....
  
  
• Hiroshi Ikematsu
• Kana Oshita
• Color Bottle
• Kawae Minoko
• Shinji Kuno
• Yukie Sone
• Norimasa Fujisawa
• Platinum
• Minji
• Meilin
• Gyunta
• Teenage Symphony (Dreamusic/Teenage Symphony)
• Jam 9
  Jam 9
  Jam9 is a Japanese band grouped in 2003 under the record company Dreamusic, Inc. It is based in Hamamatsu.Their music is mostly hip-hop. In the beginning, the activity of the members in the group was little, which made difficult their succes. They used to play at locals and music bars.In 2009 they...
  
  
• T4
• Lisa Ono
  Lisa Ono
  Lisa Ono is a popular Japanese-Brazilian bossa nova singer.- Biography :Lisa Ono was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10...
  
  

International

• Elliot Minor
  Elliot Minor
  Elliot Minor are a classically influenced rock band from York, England. The group consists of Alex Davies , Ed Minton , Dan Hetherton and Ed Hetherton .-History and formation: 2000-2006 :...
  
  
• Dúné
  Dúné
  Dúné is a Danish rock band. It was founded 2001 in Skive, Denmark, where all seven band members went to the same school. Their style is comparable to British and American Electro rock and resembles elements of 1980s pop music and 1970s punk rock...
  
  
• Erik Mongrain
  Erik Mongrain
  Erik Mongrain is a Canadian composer and guitarist. He uses a unique acoustic style with a wide array of different techniques, approaches and textures reminiscent of Michael Hedges.-Biography:...
  
  
• Smile.dk
  Smile.dk
  Smile.dk is a Swedish bubblegum dance group with Veronica Almqvist and Cecilia Reiskog as the current members. The band is well-known around the world partly due to their many songs in Dance Dance Revolution, including "Butterfly", "Golden Sky", "Boys", "Mr...
  
  
• Sunshine State
• Caitlyn
• Mon Roe
• Kids on Bridges

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Former

• Jun Shibata
  Jun Shibata
  is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter. Her nickname is "Shibajun".- Musical characteristics :Many of her songs are of slow and medium tempo and/or ballads expressive of fragility...
  
   (Active, with Victor Entertainment
  Victor Entertainment
  is a subsidiary of Japan Victor Company that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It was formerly known as...
  
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• YamaArashi
  YAMAARASHI
  YAMAARASHI is a six member Japanese rock group based in Kanagawa Prefecture. They use a blend of metal, reggae, and rap, to perform what is called nu metal. YAMAARASHI was formed in 1996. In April 2002, YAMAARASHI also runs a label called Chokkyu Recordings. YAMAAARASHI has performed with popular...
  
   (Active, with Knife Edge
  Pony Canyon
  is a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966 , which publishes music, DVD and VHS videos, movies and video games. It is a subsidiary of Japanese Media Group, Fujisankei Communications Group.-History:...
  
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• Amin (Active, with Victor Entertainment)
• MisaChi (Active, unsigned)
• Miku Nakamura (Active, unsigned)
• Machine
• Rockwell (Active, with U's Music)
• Masanori Sera (Retired, since 2008)

Distribution

Sony Music Entertainment Japan

Sony Music Entertainment Japan

is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....

 Incorporated is the current distributor of Dreamusic and is one of its shareholders.

Dreamusic was formerly distributed by Columbia Music Entertainment

Columbia Music Entertainment

is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as . It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. The company changed its name to Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. in 1946. It used the Nippon Columbia name until...

 from 2003 to 2007 and by King Records from 2007 to 2010.

Shareholders

• TY Limited
• Taito Corporation
  Taito Corporation
  The is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company....
  
  
• Takara Tomy
  Takara Tomy
  is a Japanese toy, children's merchandise and entertainment company created from the March 2006 merger of two companies:  Tomy and long-time rival, Takara...
  
  
• Sony Music Entertainment Japan
• Gaku Records
• Japan-Asia Holdings
• Dai-ichi Hoki
• Nihon Unicom
• Rentrak
• Atoss International

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