Sony Music Japan International: 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 Japan International <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Japan International
summary: Tokyo record company of the Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) group that released international repertoire in Japan from 2001 until its merger into Sony Music Labels in April 2014.
legal_name: Sony Music Japan International Inc.
country: JP
founded: 2001-10-01
dissolved: 2014-04-01
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | -------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | ------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-music-entertainment-japan | | 2001-10-01 | 2014-04-01 | true | sourced | ^mb-smji | MusicBrainz records label ownership by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. from 1 October 2001; Discogs files the company under the same parent label |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony Music Japan International Inc. | legal | | | |
| ソニー・ミュージックジャパンインターナショナル | name | ja | | |
| SMJI | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| mb-smji | https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/label/bcec5d01-a698-4d58-809e-22455e12fc87?fmt=json&inc=label-rels+url-rels | MusicBrainz label: Sony Music Japan International Inc. | 2026-09-25 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | bcec5d01-a698-4d58-809e-22455e12fc87 | Life-span, label ownership, imprint and rename relationships | CC0 | MusicBrainz | |
| discogs-smji | https://api.discogs.com/labels/64732 | Discogs label 64732: Sony Music Japan International Inc. | 2026-09-25 | Discogs | catalogue | | 64732 | Profile and parent label | | | |
| ja-wiki-sml | https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ソニー・ミュージックレーベルズ | Wikipedia (ja): ソニー・ミュージックレーベルズ | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | 沿革 and Sony Music Japan International | 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 | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Japan International Inc. (ソニー・ミュージックジャパンインターナショナル) was a Tokyo record company in the Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) group, formed on 1 October 2001 to release the repertoire of the American Sony Music Entertainment in Japan; its catalogue numbers used the sales code SI.[^mb-smji][^ja-wiki-sml] It controlled the Sony Records International imprint, and it made and distributed the Japanese CD of Evanescence's Fallen, EICP-253.[^discogs-smji][^discogs-jp]
On 1 April 2014, in a reorganisation of the SMEJ group's label companies, Sony Music Records absorbed Sony Music Japan International together with six other label companies and changed its name to Sony Music Labels Inc.[^ja-wiki-sml] MusicBrainz records the ownership by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. from 2001 and the rename to Sony Music Labels Inc. on the same date.[^mb-smji]
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