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Teichiku Records

Teichiku Records (テイチクレコード, Teichiku Rekōdo) is a Japanese record label, run by Teichiku Entertainment (テイチクエンタテインメント, Teichiku Entateinmento), that specializes in enka, kayōkyoku, and similar music. Teichiku is an abbreviation for Teikoku Chikuonki (帝国蓄音機, lit. Imperial Records), the former name of the company.[a] Teichiku Entertainment also runs the record labels Imperial Records, Takumi Note, and Union Records (ユニオンレコード, Yunion Rekōdo). It is a division of commercial karaoke manufacturer XING Inc., itself a subsidiary of Brother Industries.

Company type

KK

music (record label)

Standard Talking Machine Company of Japan

February 11, 1934 (as Teikoku Chikuonki Kabushiki-gaisha)
Nara Prefecture, Empire of Japan

Minato, Tokyo,

Japan

XING Inc. (100%)

Brother Industries[1]

teichiku.co.jp

Head office - Shiba Park Building, 2-4-1, Shiba koen, , Tokyo, Japan

Minato-ku

Osaka office - Sankyu Building, 2-14, Azuchimachi Sanchome, , Osaka, Japan

Chūō-ku

February 11, 1934 - Teikoku Chikuonki Company (帝国蓄音機株式会社) was founded in , Japan.

Nara

September 1951 - Contracted with .

Decca Records

February 1952 - Started to sell Decca records.

February 11, 1953 - Teikoku Chikuonki was renamed Teichiku, Inc. (テイチク株式会社). In the same year, the company began using for recording.

magnetic tape

1954 - Began selling and EP records.

LP records

1969 - Termination of contract with Decca.

1999 - Tokyo head office moved from Aobadai, Meguroku to Jingumae, Shibuya and the company was renamed Teichiku Entertainment, Inc. (株式会社テイチクエンタテインメント)".

April 28, 2015 - JVC Kenwood Holdings sells their majority stake of Teichiku to commercial karaoke manufacturer XING Inc (subsidiary of ).

Brother Industries

August, 2017 - Tokyo head office moved from Jingumae, Shibuya to XING Inc. headquarters in Minato-ku.

List of record labels

JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment

(in Japanese)

Official website

on YouTube

Teichiku Records' channel