is a multimedia

Multimedia

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 management company in Japan

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...

 dealing in recordings, films, television, music publishing and artist management as well as the main subsidiary of the Watanabe Production Group.

Formed by bandleader Shin Watanabe and his wife Misa Watanabe

Misa Watanabe

is a Japanese voice actress . She is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. She is well known for voicing Nefertari Vivi in One Piece. She is the official Japanese dub-over artist for Cameron Diaz.-Television Animation:*Absolute Boy - Hana Tokimiya...

 in 1955, the company has become one of the most influential of its kind in Japan. It is referred to informally in Japanese as Nabe-pro (ナベプロ, nabepuro).

Talent clients

• Yukiko Iwai
  Yukiko Iwai (Onyanko Club)
  , also known by the nickname , is a Japanese singer and actress born 1968-05-26 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.Iwai was a member of the all-girl pop group Onyanko Club , and she was the shortest of all the members at 150 centimetres . She was also half of the pop group Ushiroyubi...
  
  , former member of Onyanko Club
  Onyanko Club
  was a large all-girl Japanese pop idol group in the 1980s. The group gave a new approach to the idol formula with its 52 official members and three unofficial members...
  
  
• Sonoko Kawai, former member of Onyanko Club
• Alan Merrill
  Alan Merrill
  Alan Merrill is an American vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter. In the early 1970s Merrill was the first westerner to achieve pop star status in Japan...
  
  , recording artist with Watanabe Productions 1969-71
• Kenji Sawada
  Kenji Sawada
  , nicknamed "Julie" , also-known as vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers, is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor. He was born in Tsunoi, Iwami , Tottori Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto at age 3...
  
  , former member of The Tigers

Group subsidiaries

• Watanabe Entertainment Co., Ltd.
• Watanabe Music Publishing Co., Ltd.
• Watanabe Kikaku Co., Ltd.
• Izawa Office Co., Ltd.
• Iwappara Ski Resort
• The Works Co., Ltd.
• Sound City Co., Ltd.
• Watanabe Enterprise Co., Ltd.
• Mates Co., Ltd.
• Mania Mania Inc.
• Top Coat Co., Ltd.
• Watanabe Music Culture Forum Foundation

External links

Watanabe Production Group