Sony Group Corporation: version 2

Saved 2026-09-18 16:44 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the flagged gaps. Added register_ids LEI:529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 and JP-CR:0104-01-067252 from the GLEIF LEI record, which also gives the Japanese legal name ソニーグループ株式会社 (added as a legal alias, locale ja, from 2021), the legal/headquarters address and an entity creation date of 7 May 1946, so founded goes from 1946 to 1946-05-07. Corrected the listing facts: the summary said New York Stock Exchange only; it now says listed in Tokyo since December 1958 and on the NYSE as SONY, and About cites the Form 20-F for the TSE listing in December 1958, the ADRs issued in June 1961 and the ADSs trading on the NYSE (one ADS per common share). Strengthened the no-owner statement with GLEIF's direct-parent reporting exception (category DIRECT_ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION_PARENT, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON) and dropped the now-false closing sentence 'No Japanese corporate number or LEI is recorded here'. Added an Establishments row for the registered office at 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku (kind office, source ^gleif). About is now four paragraphs (identity, ownership, history, gaps) with every earlier sourced fact kept. New References rows: gleif and gleif-parent, both GLEIF registry records. Images: the Sony wordmark from Commons as kind logo (File:Sony logo.svg, public domain, Yasuo Kuroki/Sony) and the 2023 headquarters photograph as kind other with a note. No relation row was filed: no company role expresses 'listed, no parent', and the 2021 rename stays a legal alias because the entity now trading as Sony Corporation is the separate electronics company, which has no page here. Unresolved and named in About: the Japanese corporate number (法人番号) and the ISIN, neither stated by any source read; GLEIF's OpenCorporates id reads jp/5010401067252 but nothing read names that as the corporate number.. Current is v4.

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# Sony Group Corporation <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Group Corporation
summary: Japanese conglomerate in Minato, Tokyo, listed in Tokyo since December 1958 and on the NYSE as SONY, parent of Sony's game, music, film, electronics and financial businesses.
legal_name: Sony Group Corporation
registered_address: 1-7-1, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan
wikidata: Q41187
country: JP
website: https://www.sony.com/en/
register_ids: LEI:529900R5WX9N2OI2N910, JP-CR:0104-01-067252
founded: 1946-05-07
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                                       | country | source | note                                                                                    |
| ---- | ------ | --------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | office | 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan | JP      | ^gleif | Registered office; GLEIF records the same address as the entity's headquarters address. |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                     | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------ | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony                     | name  |        |      |       |
| ソニーグループ株式会社              | legal | ja     | 2021 |       |
| Sony Corporation         | legal |        | 1958 | 2021  |
| Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. | legal |        | 1946 | 1958  |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref            | url                                                                                             | title                                                                                                                                         | accessed   | publisher                                 | kind        | published  | record_id            | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| sec-sony       | https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000313838.json                                             | SEC EDGAR filer record: Sony Group Corp, CIK 0000313838 (address, state of incorporation, tickers, former names)                              | 2026-09-18 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission   | registry    |            | 0000313838           |         |         |             |          |
| sony-20f       | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313838/000119312526274893/d28719d20f.htm                | Sony Group Corporation, Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026: business overview and significant subsidiaries                            | 2026-09-18 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission   | registry    | 2026-06-18 | 0001193125-26-274893 |         |         |             |          |
| wiki-sonygroup | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony                                                              | Wikipedia: Sony                                                                                                                               | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia                                 | publication |            |                      |         |         |             |          |
| wikidata-sony  | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41187                                                            | Wikidata item Q41187: Sony Group (official website)                                                                                           | 2026-09-18 | Wikidata                                  | catalogue   |            | Q41187               |         |         |             |          |
| gleif          | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900R5WX9N2OI2N910                                   | GLEIF LEI record 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910: Japanese legal name, legal and headquarters address, registeredAs 0104-01-067252, entity creation date | 2026-09-18 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry    |            | 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 |         | cc0     | GLEIF       |          |
| gleif-parent   | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900R5WX9N2OI2N910/direct-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF direct-parent reporting exception for Sony Group Corporation: category DIRECT_ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION_PARENT, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON   | 2026-09-18 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry    |            | 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 |         | cc0     | GLEIF       |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Sony Group Corporation is the Japanese conglomerate at the head of the Sony group, with its headquarters at the Sony City building in Minato, Tokyo, and businesses spanning video games, music, film and television, consumer electronics, imaging and sensing, semiconductors and financial services.[^wiki-sonygroup] GLEIF records its legal name in Japanese as ソニーグループ株式会社, with Sony Group Corporation as the alternative-language legal name, and gives its legal and headquarters address as 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075; its identifiers there are LEI 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 and, in the registeredAs field, Japanese commercial register number 0104-01-067252, validated against that register.[^gleif] It also files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as CIK 0000313838, state of incorporation Japan, and that filer record carries the former name SONY CORP up to 14 May 2021.[^sec-sony]

No company owns it, because it is the listed company at the top of the group: Sony Group Corporation was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 1958 and issued American Depositary Receipts in the United States in June 1961, and its American Depositary Shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SONY, each share representing one share of common stock.[^sony-20f] GLEIF carries a direct-parent reporting exception for the entity, category direct accounting consolidation parent, reason "no known person", which is the register's way of recording that no parent consolidates it.[^gleif-parent]

It was founded in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, adopted the name Sony Corporation in 1958, and took its present name in 2021 as part of a move to a holding-company structure, the electronics business continuing under the name Sony Corporation.[^wiki-sonygroup] GLEIF gives the legal entity's creation date as 7 May 1946, recorded as 1946-05-06T15:00Z, which is midnight in Japan.[^gleif] Its Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026 lists Sony Music Entertainment, U.S.A., among the significant subsidiaries owned, directly or indirectly, at 100.0 per cent.[^sony-20f] Its official site is sony.com.[^wikidata-sony]

Two identifiers are still missing here: no source read states the Japanese corporate number (法人番号) or the ISIN of the common stock, and while GLEIF's OpenCorporates identifier for the entity reads jp/5010401067252, nothing read names that figure as the corporate number. The 2021 rename is carried as a legal alias rather than a renamed_from relation, because the company that trades under the name Sony Corporation today is the separate electronics operating company and has no page here.
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