Sony Group Corporation: version 4
Saved 2026-09-21 04:06 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled all three queue items. **owner_unknown / flagged (top of the Sony group):** Item 4.C of the FY2026 Form 20-F states in terms that Sony Group Corporation "is not directly or indirectly owned or controlled by any other corporation, by any foreign government or by any other natural or legal person either severally or jointly", and sets out the significant subsidiaries it owns directly or indirectly, so Identity now carries ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with ownership_source: ^sony-20f and the lede explains the evidence; no Relations section was added, because with no corporate parent there is no owned_by or parent_org row to write and the schema makes the section optional. I corroborated it with a second GLEIF reporting exception — the ultimate-parent one, ULTIMATE_ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION_PARENT / NO_KNOWN_PERSON — added as the new References row **gleif-ultimate-parent** alongside the direct-parent row already there. **absence_prose:** removed the whole closing paragraph, both the flagged sentence about the corporate number and the ISIN and an unflagged sentence of the same kind explaining why the 2021 rename is modelled as a legal alias rather than a renamed_from relation; no research narration is left on the page. **Freshness and rebuild:** I re-fetched the GLEIF LEI record, both parent reporting exceptions, the SEC filer record and the 20-F today and moved their accessed dates to 2026-09-21 (wiki-sonygroup and wikidata-sony were not re-read and keep 2026-09-18); no new References rows beyond gleif-ultimate-parent, and the sony-20f title now names the parts of the filing actually cited. Facts added from that re-reading: NYSE listing September 1970 (the page had the June 1961 ADR issue and the December 1958 TSE listing but not the listing itself), each ADS represents one share of common stock, 6,149,810,645 shares outstanding including 242,144,891 treasury shares at 31 March 2026, the SNEJF over-the-counter ticker and the 1996-09-25 start of the SONY CORP former name, and the partial spin-off of Sony Financial Group Inc. (board resolution 14 May 2025, effective 1 October 2025, SFGI excluded from consolidation). That last one made the Identity summary stale — it called the company the parent of Sony's financial businesses — so financial services is out of the summary. **Still open:** the Japanese corporate number (法人番号) and the ISIN of the common stock. GLEIF's ISIN mapping for the LEI returns 13 ISINs, mostly bonds plus the ADR US8356993076, and nothing I read says which of them is the common stock, so I wrote none; sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/stock/ answers 403 to the fetch service and its Wayback capture is an empty shell. Nothing else on the page needed correcting: the Establishments office row, the Aliases and both Commons images check out, and there is no Meta section.. This is the current version.
Source of v4
# 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, at the top of Sony's game, music, film and electronics businesses.
legal_name: Sony Group Corporation
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^sony-20f
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. |
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## 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. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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## 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) | 2026-09-21 | 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: 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 | | | | |
| 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 | 2026-09-21 | 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 | 2026-09-21 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | registry | | 529900R5WX9N2OI2N910 | | cc0 | GLEIF | |
| 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 | |
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## About <!--about-->
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]
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]
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]
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]
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