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Software companies based in Tokyo

  • 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…
  • Polygon MagicPolygon Magic is a Japanese video game developer with a catalogue spanning arcade cabinets, home consoles, handheld systems, mobile social platforms, and…
  • System SacomSystem Sacom, also known as System Sacom Sales Corp., operates from an office in Tokyo. This Japanese electronics company sells electronic devices to the…
  • Team NinjaTeam Ninja was born out of a financial crisis. In the mid-1990s, the Japanese gaming company Tecmo was struggling to stay solvent, and management made a…
  • Kojima ProductionsKojima Productions exists twice. Once as a name inside Konami, and once as a name on the door of an independent studio in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
  • ShogakukanShogakukan operates as a Japanese state-owned enterprise under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
  • Square (video game company)Square, the Japanese video game developer known internationally as SquareSoft, began its life in September 1983 not in a gleaming tech campus but in a former…
  • KodanshaKodansha, the largest publisher in Japan, began not as a publishing house but as a spin-off of a public speaking society.
  • Nihon FalcomNihon Falcom takes its name from a science fiction film. The founders wanted to evoke the Millennium Falcon, but changed the final "n" to an "m" to match the…
  • Square EnixSquare Enix was born from the union of two companies that had long watched each other across Japan's video game landscape.
  • SonySony began in the rubble of postwar Tokyo with a capital of 190,000 yen and eight employees. Masaru Ibuka opened an electronics shop inside a department…
  • 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…
  • KonamiKonami began life on the 21st of March 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair shop in Toyonaka, Osaka. Three men started it together, two of whom had met while…
  • Pony Canyonthe 1st of October 1966 marked the founding of Nippon Broadcasting System Service, Inc. by Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc.
  • 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…
  • FromSoftwareFromSoftware, Inc. began life not in the world of dragons and darkness, but in the far more prosaic territory of business software.