Sony Group Corporation: version 3
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| 1 | 1 | # Sony Group Corporation <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Sony Group Corporation | |
| 5 | − | 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. | |
| 5 | + | summary: Japanese conglomerate in Minato, Tokyo, listed in Tokyo since December 1958 and on the NYSE as SONY, at the top of Sony's game, music, film and electronics businesses. | |
| 6 | 6 | legal_name: Sony Group Corporation | |
| 7 | + | ownership_status: no_corporate_parent | |
| 8 | + | ownership_source: ^sony-20f | |
| 7 | 9 | registered_address: 1-7-1, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan | |
| 8 | 10 | wikidata: Q41187 | |
| 9 | 11 | country: JP | |
| 10 | 12 | website: https://www.sony.com/en/ | |
| 11 | 13 | register_ids: LEI:529900R5WX9N2OI2N910, JP-CR:0104-01-067252 | |
| 12 | 14 | founded: 1946-05-07 | |
| 13 | 15 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 14 | 16 | ||
| 15 | 17 | ## Establishments <!--establishments--> | |
| 16 | 18 | | mark | kind | address | country | source | note | | |
| 17 | 19 | | ---- | ------ | --------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 18 | 20 | | | 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. | | |
| 19 | 21 | <!--/establishments--> | |
| 20 | 22 | ||
| 21 | 23 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 22 | 24 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 23 | 25 | | ------------------------ | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 24 | 26 | | Sony | name | | | | | |
| 25 | 27 | | ソニーグループ株式会社 | legal | ja | 2021 | | | |
| 26 | 28 | | Sony Corporation | legal | | 1958 | 2021 | | |
| 27 | 29 | | Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. | legal | | 1946 | 1958 | | |
| 28 | 30 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 29 | 31 | ||
| 30 | 32 | ## Images <!--images--> | |
| 31 | 33 | | asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled | | |
| 32 | 34 | | ------------------ | ----- | ----------------- | ------------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------ | ----------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- | | |
| 33 | 35 | | logo-3fad3676.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Yasuo Kuroki, Sony | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASony_logo.svg | 2026-09-18 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 34 | 36 | | other-32ecf161.jpg | other | wikimedia-commons | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Akonnchiroll | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASony_headquaters_1.jpg | 2026-09-18 | Sony's headquarters building in Minato, Tokyo; Commons dates the photograph to 2023. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 35 | 37 | <!--/images--> | |
| 36 | 38 | ||
| 37 | 39 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 38 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 39 | − | | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 40 | − | | 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 | | | | | | |
| 41 | − | | 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 | | | | | | |
| 42 | − | | wiki-sonygroup | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony | Wikipedia: Sony | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 43 | − | | wikidata-sony | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41187 | Wikidata item Q41187: Sony Group (official website) | 2026-09-18 | Wikidata | catalogue | | Q41187 | | | | | | |
| 44 | − | | 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 | | | |
| 45 | − | | 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 | | | |
| 40 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 41 | + | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 42 | + | | 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) | 2026-09-21 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | 0000313838 | | | | | | |
| 43 | + | | 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: organizational structure and significant subsidiaries, major shareholders, market for the shares | 2026-09-21 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2026-06-18 | 0001193125-26-274893 | | | | | | |
| 44 | + | | wiki-sonygroup | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony | Wikipedia: Sony | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 45 | + | | wikidata-sony | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41187 | Wikidata item Q41187: Sony Group (official website) | 2026-09-18 | Wikidata | catalogue | | Q41187 | | | | | | |
| 46 | + | | 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 | 2026-09-21 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry | | 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 | | cc0 | GLEIF | | | |
| 47 | + | | 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 | 2026-09-21 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry | | 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 | | cc0 | GLEIF | | | |
| 48 | + | | gleif-ultimate-parent | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900R5WX9N2OI2N910/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF ultimate-parent reporting exception for Sony Group Corporation: category ULTIMATE_ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION_PARENT, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON | 2026-09-21 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry | | 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 | | cc0 | GLEIF | | | |
| 46 | 49 | <!--/references--> | |
| 47 | 50 | ||
| 48 | 51 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 49 | − | 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] | |
| 52 | + | Sony Group Corporation is the Japanese conglomerate at the head of the Sony group, with its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, and businesses spanning video games, music, film and television, consumer electronics, imaging and sensing and semiconductors.[^wiki-sonygroup] It sits at the top of the group: its Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026 states that, to its knowledge, it is not directly or indirectly owned or controlled by any other corporation, by any foreign government or by any other natural or legal person, severally or jointly, and the same report sets out the significant subsidiaries it owns directly or indirectly.[^sony-20f] Its common stock trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and its American Depositary Shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SONY.[^sony-20f] | |
| 50 | 53 | ||
| 51 | − | 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] | |
| 54 | + | GLEIF carries a reporting exception for both the direct and the ultimate parent of the entity, each with the category accounting consolidation parent and the reason "no known person", which is the register's way of recording that no parent consolidates it.[^gleif-parent][^gleif-ultimate-parent] The Form 20-F adds that there are no arrangements which may at a later date result in a change of control, and that major shareholders hold no voting rights different from those of other shareholders; as of 31 March 2026 there were 6,149,810,645 shares of common stock outstanding, including 242,144,891 shares of treasury stock, of which 523,381,332 shares were in the form of ADRs, each American Depositary Share representing one share of common stock.[^sony-20f] | |
| 52 | 55 | ||
| 53 | − | 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] | |
| 56 | + | 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, tickers SONY on the NYSE and SNEJF over the counter, and that filer record carries the former name SONY CORP from 25 September 1996 to 14 May 2021.[^sec-sony] | |
| 54 | 57 | ||
| 55 | − | 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. | |
| 58 | + | 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] It was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 1958, issued American Depositary Receipts in the United States in June 1961 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in September 1970.[^sony-20f] 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, and records that the board resolved on 14 May 2025 to spin off part of its wholly owned subsidiary Sony Financial Group Inc. as of 1 October 2025, after which that company, which operates the financial services business, was excluded from consolidation.[^sony-20f] Its official site is sony.com.[^wikidata-sony] | |
| 56 | 59 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v3
# 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
<!--/identity-->
## 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-->
## Images <!--images-->
| asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled |
| ------------------ | ----- | ----------------- | ------------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------ | ----------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- |
| logo-3fad3676.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Yasuo Kuroki, Sony | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASony_logo.svg | 2026-09-18 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| other-32ecf161.jpg | other | wikimedia-commons | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Akonnchiroll | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASony_headquaters_1.jpg | 2026-09-18 | Sony's headquarters building in Minato, Tokyo; Commons dates the photograph to 2023. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
<!--/images-->
## 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.
<!--/about-->