Sony Music Entertainment Japan: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 13:08 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the Japanese CD of Evanescence – Fallen (EICP-253, JAN 4547366011746) from Discogs 2386460, the MusicBrainz release with its Cover Art Archive disc photo, Wikipedia, and the Amazon.co.jp and CDJ. This is the current version.
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# Sony Music Entertainment Japan <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Entertainment Japan
summary: Tokyo entertainment company wholly owned by Sony Group Corporation, founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony Records; it runs Sony's record labels, music publishing and Aniplex in Japan.
legal_name: Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
wikidata: Q732503
country: JP
website: https://www.sme.co.jp/
founded: 1968-03-11
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | | | | sourced | ^wiki-smej | Wikipedia: wholly owned by Sony Group Corporation; a 50/50 joint venture with CBS until Sony bought the CBS half in January 1988 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. | legal | | | |
| 株式会社ソニー・ミュージックエンタテインメント | legal | ja | | |
| Sony Music Japan | name | | | |
| SMEJ | search | | | |
| CBS/Sony Records Inc. | search | | 1968 | 1983 |
| CBS/Sony Group, Inc. | search | | 1983 | 1991 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| wiki-smej | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Entertainment_Japan | Wikipedia: Sony Music Entertainment Japan | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Infobox, lead and history | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| discogs-jp | https://api.discogs.com/releases/2386460 | Discogs release 2386460: Evanescence – Fallen (CD, Album, Enhanced, Reissue, Japan, EICP 253) | 2026-09-25 | Discogs | catalogue | | 2386460 | Identifiers, companies, notes, tracklist | | | |
| mb-block | https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=barcode:4547366*&fmt=json&limit=100 | MusicBrainz: releases with barcodes beginning 4547366 | 2026-09-25 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | | Countries and labels of the first 100 hits | CC0 | MusicBrainz | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., known as Sony Music Japan or SMEJ, is a Tokyo entertainment company wholly owned by Sony Group Corporation, with operations in record labels, music publishing, anime production and events.[^wiki-smej] It was incorporated in March 1968 as CBS/Sony Records, a 50/50 joint venture of Sony and CBS, was renamed CBS/Sony Group in 1983, and became wholly Sony's when Sony acquired the CBS Records Group and the other half of the company in January 1988, after which it took its present name.[^wiki-smej] It works independently of the US-based Sony Music Entertainment, and its subsidiaries include Sony Music Labels and Aniplex.[^wiki-smej]
Its group company Sony Music Japan International made and distributed the Japanese CD of Evanescence's Fallen, EICP-253, whose JAN begins with 4547366, a block that MusicBrainz fills with releases on Sony Music Japan group labels.[^discogs-jp][^mb-block]
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