Japanese King Record

King Records (キングレコード, Kingu Rekōdo^?) is a Japanese record company, founded in 1931 as a division of the Japanese music publishing house Kodansha. It became an began operating as an independent entity in the 1950's, but remains part of the publisher's Otowa Group. The label has had huge success with Two-Mix, Miho Nakayama, Megumi Hayashibara, Masami Okui, Yuki Uchida and Yuko Ogura. Now one of Japan's largest record companies not to be owned by a multinational entity, it is headquartered in Tokyo. King Records of Japan 78 label; presumed fair use for King Records article The copyright status of this vintage image is undetermined; it may still be copyrighted. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Kodansha (講談社 Kōdansha) is a major Japanese publisher of literature and manga, headquartered in (Bunkyo), Tokyo. ... TWO-MIX TWO-MIX is a Japanese pop group formed in 1995. ... Nakayama Miho (中山美穂, born 1 March 1970 in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan) is an singer-actress and a model, formerly an idol singer. ... Megumi Hayashibara ), born March 30, 1967 in Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan) is a very popular voice actress (seiyÅ«) and singer in Japan. ... Masami Okui (奥井 雅美 Okui Masami, born March 13) is a J-Rock/J-Pop singer who was born in Itami. ... Cover of the 2006 Yuko Ogura Calendar Yuko Ogura (小倉優子) (born November 1, 1983 in Mobara, Chiba prefecture) is one of the most popular Japanese idols and models who typically aims for the cute schoolgirl look. ... The word multinational can refer to: A Multinational corporation A Multinational State This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Tokyo ) , literally eastern capital, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and includes the highly urbanized central area formerly known as the city of Tokyo which is the heart of the Greater Tokyo Area. ...

It has Starchild label managed by animation producer Toshimichi Otsuki for animation music and film.

During the 1990's, it distributed releases of Konami Music Entertainment. Konami Corporation (コナミ) TYO: 9766 (NYSE: KNM) (SGX: K20) is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling computer and video games. ...

Artists of King Records

• Rain (Singer)

See also

• List of record labels

The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ...

External link

• King Records Japan homepage