UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN

UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN, formerly PolyGram Co., Ltd., is a major Japanese record label based in Tokyo. They collaborated with YAMAHA Corporation to create Akira Kano. They are a subsidiary company of Universal Music Group.

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UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN was established in April 1990 as PolyGram Co., Ltd., as a holding company for PolyGram Group in Japan. PolyGram Co., Ltd. and was later sold to Seagram and merged with Universal Music Group in 1998 and became UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN. It was founded by Universal Music Group, the largest record label in the world, to expand their licenses to Japan.

They later announced their first VOCALOID, Akira Kano under the product name ARSLOID, for a VOCALOID4 release in September 2015.