A-Nation (stylized as a-nation ) is the name of an annual series of summer concerts that are held in various cities in Japan . Organized by Avex Group , Japan's biggest independent record label , this series features the most successful artists signed onto Avex Trax or other labels of the group (although some artists from other Japanese labels also participate here). A-Nation began in 2002 and is held each weekend during August of each year. Top Avex artists such as Ayumi Hamasaki , Kumi Koda , AAA , Ai Otsuka , BoA , Do As Infinity , TVXQ , Super Junior , Hitomi and SHINee perform at A-Nation every year.
40-462: Artists not signed with Avex Group are expressed in italics . August 3 August 4 August 5 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 10 August 25 August 26 These artists are managed by Avex Group, but are not signed to any of its labels. These artists left Avex Group either after being terminated or end of their contracts. These artists, before being signed to Avex Group, were invited to participate to A-Nation. Mari Natsuki
80-470: A CD wholesaler based in Machida, Tokyo . In September 1990, they opened a recording studio and created Avex Trax as a music label. In the same year, they created "Musique Folio Inc.", a music publishing company, which became "Prime Direction Inc." In 1993, they transferred to Aoyama, Tokyo and created a U.S. branch, called "AV Experience America Inc." The year also marked the first of Avex's yearly events. It
120-484: A board meeting, Yoda introduced a resolution calling on Chiba to resign because of an alleged conflict of interest . A source says the disagreement arose because Chiba had signed an artist managed by a member of his family. The board backed Yoda's resolution in a 6-1 vote. However, Matsuura — described by insiders as a close ally of Chiba — introduced a second resolution demanding that Yoda step down due to "a difference of opinion in management principles". Matsuura's motion
160-635: A classical music business (named Avex Classics). In January 2004, they began selling Japanese music CDs in South Korea. In December of that same year, President Max Matsuura "spotted" former idol Ami Suzuki performing live at the annual festival of their school, Nihon University . He subsequently signed her to the Avex label. In 2005, Avex acquired distribution rights for Aozora Records ' catalogue including all future Hitomi Yaida releases. In early 2008, Avex partnered with Victor JVC to officially create
200-406: A feud between Max Matsuura and co-founder Tom Yoda affected the group. It started because of Yoda's ambition to expand Avex into other entertainment-related ventures, especially producing movies . In addition, he accused Ryuhei Chiba , the company's executive director and president of Avex Inc. (now Avex Planning and Development), of pursuing personal profit from a few big artists. July 30: In
240-785: A result, Avex's stocks in the TSE fell by 16 percent that day. August 3: Due to pressure by employees and artists and to save the company from bankruptcy, Yoda resigned and was replaced by Toshio Kobayashi. AGHD is listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Börse München of Germany under the ticker symbol AX8. More K-pop artists from other agencies continued to sign with Avex such as SM Entertainment 's TVXQ (2006), YG Entertainment 's 2NE1 (2010), S-plus Entertainment's SS501 member Kim Hyung Jun (2011), Pledis Entertainment 's After School (2011), NH Media's U-KISS (2011) and Yejeon Media's Shu-I (2011). On July 21, 2011, it
280-463: A second connection after it had already connected. Even though brokerages have access to alternative gateways, the outage caused "delays in execution, correction and cancellation" for many securities firms including Daiwa Securities and Nomura. On October 1, 2020, for the first time in its history as an all electronic exchange, the Tokyo Stock Exchange had to suspend trading in all shares for
320-486: A trader at UBS Warburg , the Swiss investment bank, sold 610,000 shares in this company at ¥6 each, while he intended to sell 16 shares at ¥600,000. The bank lost £71 million. During yet another initial public offering, that of J-Com, on December 8, 2005, an employee at Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. mistakenly typed an order to sell 600,000 shares at ¥1 each, instead of an order to sell 1 share at ¥600,000. Mizuho failed to catch
360-474: A whole day due to a technical glitch, causing buying and selling to freeze. This was announced just minutes before 9 a.m., when it was scheduled to open. The problem was found to be in "the system for relaying market information", hence making the glitch a network problem, but the Asahi Shimbun reported that the glitch was due to a mechanical failure. The issue stemmed back to the "Arrowhead" trading system and
400-528: Is a stock exchange located in Tokyo , Japan . The exchange is owned by Japan Exchange Group (JPX), a holding company that it also lists ( TYO : 8697 ), and operated by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of JPX. JPX was formed from merger of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc. with Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (now Osaka Exchange, Inc. ); the merger process began in July 2012, when said merger
440-458: Is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate led by founder Max Matsuura and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1988, the company manages J-pop talents like Ayumi Hamasaki , TVXQ! and internet sensation PikoTaro . It has also shifted into other business domains like anime, video games and live music events, partnering with Ultra Music Festival and hosting the annual A-nation . The company
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#1732881543794480-571: Is a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) keiretsu . AVEX is an acronym of the English words A udio V isual EX pert. Since its foundation, its corporate name was Avex D.D. , Incorporated, and ten years later it was changed to Avex, Incorporated. The current name, Avex Group Holdings, Incorporated, was adopted in 2004 as part of reconstruction process after Tom Yoda 's resignation. Avex Group Holdings, Incorporated
520-466: Is currently signed to another label, while her band, Gubier du Mari, is under Avex. Minami Kuribayashi is currently and originally signed to Lantis . She is also currently signed to Avex Group for Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse . Avex Group Avex Inc. ( Japanese : エイベックス株式会社 , romanized : Eibekkusu kabushiki gaisha / ə ˈ v ɛ k s / / ˈ eɪ v ɛ k s / , commonly known as Avex and stylized as avex )
560-588: The First Section which started when Tokyo Stock Exchange was re-established in 1949 and includes mainly large companies; the Second Section which started in 1961 and includes mainly mid-sized companies; JASDAQ (established in 1991, acquired by Osaka Stock Exchange in 2010, and absorbed into TSE in 2013) and Mothers (Market of the high-growth and emerging stocks, established at TSE in 1999) which are both for emerging companies; and TOKYO PRO Market which
600-718: The stock market of TSE are the Nikkei 225 index of companies selected by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan's largest business newspaper), the TOPIX index based on the share prices of Prime companies, and the J30 index of large industrial companies maintained by Japan's major broadsheet newspapers. There are also active bond market and futures market . Ninety-four domestic and 10 foreign securities companies participate in TSE trading. See: Members of
640-578: The American music business. Avex leadership gave Osada five years to find success in the U.S. The home has been renovated to include four recording studios. The label has partnered with Sony Music Publishing to administer its catalogue outside Japan. In April 2010, the Avex Group corporation was re-structured to establish Avex Music Publishing Inc. as a consolidated subsidiary, in a corporate spin-off of music publishing division of Avex Group Holdings Inc. Thus
680-740: The Avex Group became a pure holding company, with a corporate structure as follows: The Group is a member of the IFPI for Hong Kong and Japan. Each year since 2002, Avex has hosted a summer concert tour around Japan, "A-Nation", featuring the company's most successful acts. It is held every weekend in August in different Japanese cities. Top Avex acts like Ayumi Hamasaki , Kumi Koda , AAA , Ai Otsuka , BIGBANG , BOA , Do As Infinity , Hitomi , TRF , Every Little Thing and TVXQ perform to major crowds each year. In 2008, Namie Amuro made her first appearance at A-Nation and performed on all dates that year. For
720-580: The Growth subsection were transitioned into the Growth market, along with all 424 companies in the Mothers section. There were a total of 3,899 companies listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange, as of 21 August 2023. The Tokyo Stock Exchange was established on May 15, 1878, as the Tokyo Kabushiki Torihikijo ( 東京株式取引所 , also literally means the Tokyo Stock Exchange and shortened as Tōkabu ( 東株 ) ) under
760-564: The TSE paid $ 303 million to acquire a 4.99% stake in Singapore Exchange Ltd. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the TSE are developing jointly traded products and share technology, marking the latest cross-border deal among bourses as international competition heats up. In July 2008, the LSE and the TSE announced a new joint venture Tokyo-based market, which will be based on the LSE's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The exchange
800-767: The Tokyo Stock Exchange The exchange's press club, called the Kabuto Club ( 兜倶楽部 , Kabuto kurabu ) , meets on the third floor of the TSE building. Most Kabuto Club members are affiliated with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun , Kyodo News , Jiji Press , or business television broadcasters such as Bloomberg LP and CNBC . The Kabuto Club is generally busiest during April and May, when public companies release their annual accounts. The exchange's normal trading sessions are from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on all days of
840-413: The close on January 18 due to the trade volume threatening to exceed the exchange's computer system's capacity of 4.5 million trades per day. This was called the "livedoor shock". The exchange quickly increased its order capacity to five million trades a day. On October 9, 2018, one of the four gateways used for order entry was taken down after Merrill Lynch Japan Securities erroneously tried to establish
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#1732881543794880-643: The companies' Japanese CD releases, after WDC had taken a small stake in Avex the previous year. Later that year "Avex Mode", an animation company, was established. In December, the company was listed on the 1st section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol 7860. In 2001, Avex opened the "avex artists academy" music school. In 2002, they released the " CCCD ", a type of copy-protected CD, and opened their building in Aoyama, paid for by Sumitomo Life and worth 205 billion yen. In 2003, they opened
920-506: The direction of then- Finance Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and capitalist advocate Shibusawa Eiichi . Trading began on June 1, 1878. In 1943, the exchange was combined with eleven other stock exchanges in major Japanese cities to form a single Japanese Stock Exchange ( 日本証券取引所 , Nippon Shōken Torihikisho ) . The combined exchange was shut down on August 1, days before the bombing of Hiroshima . The Tokyo Stock Exchange reopened under its current Japanese name on May 16, 1949, pursuant to
960-429: The error; the Tokyo Stock Exchange initially blocked attempts to cancel the order, resulting in a net loss of US$ 347 million to be shared between the exchange and Mizuho. Both companies are now trying to deal with their troubles: lack of error checking, lack of safeguards, lack of reliability, lack of transparency, lack of testing, loss of confidence, and loss of profits. On 11 December, the TSE acknowledged that its system
1000-413: The first time in 2012, Kumi Koda did not perform due to her pregnancy. Festival sponsors include Joe Weider and his Weider fitness products, Seven & I Holdings Co. , NTT DoCoMo , Mizuno Corp. , Nissay (through its You May Dream! Project), and others. Tokyo Stock Exchange The Tokyo Stock Exchange ( 東京証券取引所 , Tōkyō Shōken Torihikijo ) , abbreviated as Tosho ( 東証 ) or TSE/TYO ,
1040-547: The inability to fail over to backup hardware. Other stock markets in Japan, including regional exchanges in Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo, also suspended trading because they used the same technology platform as the TSE. Meanwhile, derivatives on the OSE continued trading, with Nikkei futures ending the day 0.56% higher. Japan Exchange Group Inc., which operates the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said that
1080-563: The label D-topia Entertainment as a business partnership between the labels and its founder, Terukado Onishi, with the sales promotion handled by Victor while the area promotion handled by Avex. As part of the Avex Group's 20th anniversary celebration, a big project occurred with avex trax's "produced by avex trax" artists; the band Girl Next Door , formed and debuted in September 2008. Avex Group launched its own IPTV service, BeeTV , May 2009 in partnership with NTT DoCoMo . In August 2004,
1120-433: The new Securities Exchange Act. The TSE runup from 1983 to 1990 was unprecedented, in 1990 it accounted for over 60% of the world's stock market capitalization (by far the world's largest) before falling precipitously in value and rank one of the 4th largest exchange in the world by market capitalization of listed shares. The current TSE building was opened on May 23, 1988, replacing the original TSE building from 1931, and
1160-617: The results were published on January 11, 2022. From the First Section, 1841 companies were transitioned into the Prime market and 344 companies were transitioned into the Standard market. All 474 companies in the Second Section were also transitioned into the Standard market. From JASDAQ , all 658 companies in its Standard subsection were transitioned into the Standard market and all 36 companies in
1200-526: The trading floor of the TSE was closed on April 30, 1999, so that the exchange could switch to electronic trading for all transactions. A new facility, called TSE Arrows ( 東証アローズ , Tōshō Arrows ) , opened on May 9, 2000. In 2010, the TSE launched its Arrowhead trading facility. In 2001, the TSE restructured itself as a kabushiki gaisha ("stock company"): before this time, it was structured as an incorporated association ( 社団法人 , shadan hōjin ) with its members as shareholders. On 15 June 2007,
1240-674: The week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance. The exchange is closed for the following holidays: New Year's Day , Coming of Age Day , National Foundation Day , Vernal Equinox Day , Shōwa Day , Constitution Memorial Day , Greenery Day , Children's Day , Marine Day , Respect for the Aged Day , Autumnal Equinox , Health and Sports Day , Culture Day , Labour Thanksgiving Day , and The Emperor's Birthday . Until April 4, 2022, corporate shares are listed and traded at Tokyo Stock Exchange in five market sections:
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1280-586: Was announced that Avex had paired with Korean management label YG Entertainment to form YGEX. In 2012, the group began offering limited releases for sale, DRM-free for the first time within Japan on Amazon MP3 . Max Matsuura and Toshio Kobayashi, the company's top two individual shareholders, launched their own investment companies to anchor their shares in 2012. As a show of modernization, Avex Group moved to Izumi Garden Tower in Roppongi in October 2014. The company
1320-517: Was approved by the Japan Fair Trade Commission . JPX itself was launched on January 1, 2013. The TSE is incorporated as a kabushiki gaisha ( joint-stock company ) with nine directors, four auditors and eight executive officers. Its headquarters are located at 2-1 Nihonbashi - Kabutochō , Chūō , Tokyo which is the largest financial district in Japan . The main indices tracking
1360-520: Was at fault in the Mizuho trade. On 21 December, Takuo Tsurushima, chief executive of the TSE, and two other senior executives resigned over the Mizuho affair. On January 17, 2006, the Nikkei 225 fell 2.8%, its fastest drop in nine months, as investors sold stocks across the board in the wake of a raid by prosecutors on internet company livedoor . The Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading 20 minutes before
1400-428: Was defeated 5-2. He and Chiba resigned the next day. August 2: Matsuura and Chiba announced their resignations in a meeting with employees of Avex. Chiba denied any fault, while Matsuura complained that Avex had lost its love of music and said he wanted to start over. They had the support of many staff who also said they would quit. More significantly, the label's top star, Ayumi Hamasaki , said she would leave. As
1440-477: Was designated to the 36th floor – the former address of DWANGO . On February 15, 2017, Avex Group discontinued all foreign exports of Blu-rays, DVDs, and CDs published under their Avex Pictures label. A spokesperson said the action was taken due to unspecified rights issues. In 2022, Avex made a renewed attempt to expand into North America. Avex USA Inc. opened in a rented five-bedroom West Hollywood home, headed by Naoki Osada, an Avex veteran with experience in
1480-595: Was established in 2009 jointly with London Stock Exchange as an Alternative Investment Market (Tokyo AIM) for small companies. There were a total of 3,821 companies listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange, as of March 31, 2022. companies) (本則市場) Beginning April 4, 2022, the market divisions were restructured into the Prime , Standard and Growth market divisions, differentiated by market liquidity , corporate governance , and other criteria. Companies voluntarily selected their new division between September and December 2021, and
1520-726: Was held in Tokyo Dome under the name "avex rave '93" and attracted 50,000 attendees. This led to the creation of the Cutting Edge label. In 1994, they formed two UK subsidiaries, "Rhythm Republic Limited" and "Avex U.K. Limited". Later that year, they opened a disco, claimed on their website to be "the world's largest scale disco", named Velfarre . In 1997, they opened a series of concert halls called " Zepp " with Sony Music Entertainment Japan . In early 1999, they signed an agreement with Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records (record labels both owned by The Walt Disney Company ) to handle
1560-486: Was only able to operate for 90 minutes on November 1, 2005, due to bugs with a newly installed transactions system, developed by Fujitsu , which was supposed to help cope with higher trading volumes. The interruption in trading was the worst in the history of the exchange until October 1, 2020. Trading was suspended for four-and-a-half hours. During the initial public offering of advertising giant Dentsu , in December 2001,
1600-469: Was used for the main subsidiaries, while the old name (Avex, Incorporated) was for entertainment components of the Group. In 2005, Avex, Incorporated became Avex Entertainment, Incorporated, and stayed on as part of the Group. Avex was registered June 1, 1973, as Avex D.D. Incorporated ( エイベックス・ディー・ディー株式会社 , Eibekkusu Di Di Kabushiki Gaisha ) , although it did not become established until 1988. They began as
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