Japanese Game Industry

1-UP Studio

1-UP Studio, Inc. is a restructured incarnation of Brownie Brown.

5pb.

Five Powered & basics

6waves

A leading international publisher of independent social and mobile games.

AMI

Amusement Marketing International (AMI) was a very important for many CAVE Arcade games.

ASCII Corporation

Japanese publishing company that was founded in 1987, and produced games exclusively on the Japanese market.

ASCII Media Works

Acquire

Acquire will continue to take on the challenge of establishing a solid brand by constantly pursuing fun and creating new software services, and playing a part in the development of the entertainment industry.

Alfa System

AlfaSystem Co.,Ltd. is a development and planning company from Kumamoto City, Japan. The company has been around since 1988.

Anchor

Anchor, Inc. is a Tokyo based game development and CG production studio. The company was founded 1996 by Masahiro Onoguchi and his brother Kouichi Onoguchi, and has focused primarily on wrestling and fighting games.

Ancient

Aquaplus

A game manufacturing company that specializes in the development of adult and other entertainment software. Their adult games are marketed under the brand name "Leaf", while the brand "Aquaplus" is employed for products intended for the general public.

Art

Artdink

Artdink is a Japanese developer known for its quirky, strange, unique, and innovative games.

ArtePiazza

Asmik Ace

A Japanese video game developer. Founded in 1985, Asmik largely focused on the growing console market, especially the NES/Famicom. In 1997 they merged with Ace Entertainment, a movie company, to form Asmik Ace Entertainment.

Asobism

Japanese independent studio known for developing the Freakyforms series for Nintendo and their original Dragon Poker mobile titles.

Atlus

BB Studio

Bandai Namco Entertainment

Bandai Namco Holdings

Bandai Namco Online

Bandai Namco Studios

“Dreams, Fun and Inspiration” is the engine for happiness.

Banpresto

A Japanese developer of arcade machines. Was merged into Bandai Namco Games on April 1, 2008. Popular in Japan, they have much less exposure in the United States.

Black Tower Studios

Japanese game developer.

CAVE

A Japanese company known for its bullet hell shoot 'em ups.

COLOPL

Camelot Software Planning

Camelot is a second party developer of Nintendo, mostly famous for their work on the Shining Force and Mario Sports titles.

Capcom

Capcom began in Japan in 1979 as a manufacturer and distributor of electronic game machines.

Cattle Call

A game software planning and development company.

Chunsoft

Chunsoft is a Japanese video game developer based out of the Shinjuku ward in Tokyo.

City Connection

Clap Hanz

Japanese developer best known for the Hot Shots Golf games.

Collavier Corporation

Collavier Corporation is a Japanese company specializing in the development of DSI and iOS games and apps.

Compile Heart

Compile Heart is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded in 2006.

Creatures

Creatures is one of the three original Pokemon companies

Culture Brain Excel

Culture Brain is a small Japanese developer/publisher of DS titles that was once known for some unique hybrid titles on the NES, SNES and GB.