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Epic Records Japan

Japanese record label
Organization Record Label Q846383

Facts

11 properties

Identity

Instance of
record label, video game publisher[3]
Official website
www.epic-jp.net[10]

Status and dates

Inception
August 1978[8]
Replaces
Epic/Sony[11]

Location

Headquarters location
Rokubanchō[6]
Country
Japan[2]

Industry and activity

Industry
video game industry[7]

People

Founder
Shigeo Maruyama[4]

Relations

Owned by
Sony Music Entertainment Japan[5]
Parent organization or unit
Sony Music Entertainment Japan[9]
More facts +1
Different from
Epic Records[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Epic Records Japan en Epic/Sony Inc. cs Epic/Sony Records es Epic/Sony Inc. fa اپیک رکوردز ژاپن fi Epic Sony fr Epic/Sony he אפיק/סוני רקורדס ja エピックレコーズ ja エピックレコーズジャパン ja エピックレコードジャパン ja ESCL ja EPIC RECORDS JAPAN ja EPIC・ソニー ja EPICレコード ja EPICレコードジャパン ja エピック・ソニー ja エピックソニー ja エピックソニーレコード ko 에픽 레코드 재팬
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Freebase ID
/m/03cm53m
MobyGames company ID
8291
MobyGames company ID (former scheme)
epicsony-inc
MusicBrainz label ID
74d4bedc-649c-4855-89ec-c3ec02e68861, 530a6c2d-a3f1-4015-876c-21f91b390da2, 4d8b1dfa-97e8-4653-8ca6-781006f4401d, 104a609c-e800-4dd8-82f9-9e83899bbe0d
Quora topic ID
Epic-Sony
Topic's main category
Category:Epic Records Japan

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🔗 Connections
← Record label 80
Stray Kids, Scandal, Tetsuya Komuro, Angela Aki, Masaki Suda, Haruna Kojima, Ikimono-gakari, Takanori Nishikawa +72 more
Country 1
Japan
Headquarters location 1
Rokubanchō
Instance of 1
record label
Mb:label ownership 1
Epic/Sony
Owned by 1
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Parent organization or unit 1
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
← Publisher 1
Utopia: The Creation of a Nation
← Represented by 1
Masayuki Suzuki
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Summary

Epic Records Japan is a record label[1].

Related Entities

Japan record label

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . sme.co.jp. sme.co.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26w ago · Flagstaff12 · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Founder → Shigeo Maruyama
    Topic's main category → Category:Epic Records Japan
    Official website → http://www.epic-jp.net/
    Different from → Epic Records
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Instance of: video game publisher, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778778753782"
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