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Companies formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- SegaSega is a Japanese video game company whose history reads like a map of the entire industry's evolution. It began not with video games at all, but with slot…
- BayerBayer AG began not as a pharmaceutical giant but as a dyestuffs factory in Barmen, Germany, in 1863. Friedrich Bayer, a dye salesman, and Johann Friedrich…
- Dwango (company)Dwango began not in Japan, but as a dial-up gaming service in the United States. The original DWANGO stood for Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation, and…
- TV TokyoTV Tokyo broadcasts today from the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo, as the flagship of the TX Network.
- EnixEnix began not as a video game company but as a tabloid publisher. Yasuhiro Fukushima founded it on the 22nd of September 1975 under the name Eidansha Boshu…
- Line CorporationLine Corporation, the company behind one of Asia's most widely used messaging apps, began its life not as a chat platform but as a gaming hub.
- Sammy CorporationSammy Corporation began its life not as a gaming company, but as a spin-off of an arcade division. On the 1st of November 1975, a manufacturing and marketing…
- NamcoNamco started with two hand-cranked rocking horses on a department store rooftop in Yokohama. Masaya Nakamura, the son of a shotgun repair business owner…
- Gonzo (company)Gonzo, the Japanese anime studio, was not born in a conference room or a corporate boardroom. It grew out of the creative wreckage of Gainax, the legendary…
- TaitoTaito began not as a video game company but as a vodka distillery in postwar Tokyo, founded by a Ukrainian refugee with roots in Shanghai.
- Hudson SoftHudson Soft was born not from a love of games, but from a love of trains. On the 18th of May 1973, brothers Yuji and Hiroshi Kudo registered their new…
- LivedoorLivedoor was a Japanese internet company that collapsed under the weight of a securities fraud scandal in 2006, but for a decade before that, it stood among…