Sony Music Entertainment Japan

is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is independent from the worldwide Sony BMG joint venture due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries including the anime production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in January 1997 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Japanese artists and bands on Sony Music Japan's numerous labels include: Younha, Dir en grey, Flow, Ken Hirai, L'Arc~en~Ciel, SunSet Swish, Jinn, Chemistry, Polysics, Nana Kitade, Yui, Angela Aki, Porno Graffitti, Cool Joke, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, High and Mighty Color, Beat Crusaders, Mika Nakashima, Nami Tamaki, Yellow Generation, Orange Range, Crystal Kay, Sowelu, Soul'd Out, Miliyah Kato, Yuna Ito, Back-On, access, UVERworld, abingdon boys school and numerous others. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, Tofu... full article at wikipedia