Media & Entertainment Startups

Wedding News is a Japanese wedding information service that aggregates venue reviews and ratings from multiple wedding sites, publishes firsthand accounts from past brides, and lets couples compare and book wedding venues. It focuses on venues in Japan, with rankings based on its own tally of bookings and page views.

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Cocohore Japan is a regionally focused advertising company that helps revitalize local areas in Japan by uncovering and promoting each region's distinctive appeal. It runs business-succession matching services, local-community communication via social media, and the creation of social-good media for municipalities and other partners.

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Goma Books is a Japanese publisher that releases print-on-demand (POD) and e-book titles distributed through Amazon and other digital bookstores, covering topics such as health, medicine, business, self-help, and manga. It also runs digital book series including "GD Books" (Goma Digital Books).

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corom operates a "micro-live" music streaming platform that lets independent artists perform live and earn income, offering high-quality video and audio, interactive features, and community-building tools. It serves independent musicians and their fans, and is based in Japan.

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Diamond Inc. operates a Japanese online business and news media platform publishing articles on industry, economy, international politics, careers, and lifestyle, along with sponsored content. It serves a general Japanese business audience.

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Todokeru operates media and creative services focused on agriculture, working with farmers to improve their revenue. The company serves agricultural producers, major advertising agencies, and retail/distribution partners including supermarket chains and agricultural wholesalers.

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Trys (formerly TriFort) is a Japanese creative studio that produces vertical-scroll web manga (webtoons) and develops games, including Web3 multiplayer titles. Its manga works are distributed on platforms such as LINE Manga and Piccoma.

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Translimit is a Japanese company that develops and publishes mobile games distributed worldwide, along with a metaverse platform. Its titles span puzzle and action genres aimed at global consumer audiences.

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Nurve is a VR company that builds products using 360-degree images and video, centered on serving real estate companies. Its platform supports property photography, promotion, online sales meetings, web marketing, and remote property explanations (IT jūsetsu).

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NetAsia Inc. operates "PR FORCE," a digital PR service offering press release distribution, research-based PR, and market research using online research panels. The Japanese company serves businesses seeking PR, public relations, and marketing research support.

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Balus is a Japanese company operating motion-capture studios and XR content production, running live virtual events and the "SPWN" all-in-one fan engagement tool that connects creators with their fans. It also develops IP using motion capture and proprietary technology, and manages in-house artists and voice-actor programs.

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The company develops digital media systems for venues such as public sports facilities, stadiums, commercial complexes, and transit locations, including a platform for managing and distributing content across digital signage and web, LED display products, an ad-distribution network, and self/mobile ordering systems for food courts and restaurants.

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Fileforce SecurePC is a security product that prevents accidental information leaks by keeping no data on local PCs and instead providing access to cloud-stored files, offering VDI-equivalent protection at cloud-service cost. It supports office work, telework, device sharing, and BYOD, and integrates with the Fileforce cloud file server.

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Material is a Japanese PR and brand-building agency that develops custom brand stories and marketing narratives for corporate clients. Its work includes campaigns for brands such as Sapporo Breweries.

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MUSCAT GROUP (formerly Rice Curry) is a Japanese company operating SNS/social media marketing support, community media, SaaS, and consumer beauty brands, running several subsidiaries across marketing and product lines. Listed publicly in June 2024, it groups businesses in social media marketing, media production, and cosmetics/oral care brands.

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Netoff operates an online resale and reuse marketplace under the "NET OFF" brand. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rinet Japan Group, a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company.

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Linkties Holdings is a Japanese company whose stated purpose is to find and connect valuable people, goods, activities, and information to create a fulfilling society. The about page describes the company's organizational philosophy and values ("a company as one family") but gives little concrete detail about its products or services.

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4MEEE operates a Japanese online media site aimed at women, publishing content across fashion, beauty, relationships, food, and lifestyle categories. The company is a media business based in Tokyo.

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A Japanese company applying the ad-supported internet model to podcasts, building advertising infrastructure for the podcast market. Its team has worked in internet advertising since the late 1990s.

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Wondershare is a Chinese software company that builds AI-powered tools for digital content and media creation, including video and music video editing products used by individual creators and enterprises. It serves a global user base across consumer and business markets in creative content production.

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Phoenix New Media (ifeng.com) is a Chinese-language online news and media portal covering current affairs, finance, technology, automotive, entertainment, sports, culture, and lifestyle. It publishes news articles, video programs, and commentary primarily for a Chinese audience.

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Cyzone (创业邦) is a Chinese startup and venture capital media platform that publishes news, funding reports, industry rankings, and research on entrepreneurship, tech, and investment. It also offers services such as an equity investment database (睿兽分析), angel funds, incubation programs, events, and project-investor matching for founders and investors in China.

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MWC Shanghai is a trade exhibition and conference for the mobile communications and connectivity industry, drawing exhibitors, delegations, and attendees including C-level executives and media. The event, held in Shanghai, covers mobile telecom and adjacent sectors.

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The site hosts short medical videos in which named physicians answer common health questions, with content spanning topics such as orthopedics (e.g. cervical spondylosis, lumbar strain, femoral head necrosis). It appears aimed at Chinese-language consumers seeking health information.

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