Industry Music, Film Headquarters Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan Founded 2001 | Subsidiaries J-One Records Founder Johnny Kitagawa Parent organization Johnny & Associates | |
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Type Private (subsidiary of Johnny & Associates) Key people Julie Keiko Fujishima , Mary Kitagawa
(President, CEO) Website J Storm Official Website Distributors Avex Group, Avex Taiwan, S.M. Entertainment, GMM Grammy, Universal Records (Philippines) Artists Arashi, Hey! Say! JUMP, Jun Matsumoto, Satoshi Ohno, Kazunari Ninomiya | ||
J Storm, Inc. (株式会社ジェイ・ストーム, Kabushikigaisha Jei Sutom) is a Japanese music and film company owned by Johnny & Associates. It was established on November 12, 2001, initially as a label for the Johnny's group, Arashi, after which it was named (Arashi, or 嵐 in Japanese text translates to "Storm").
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Aside from producing and releasing CDs and DVDs, the company also produces films for Johnny's various talents. J Storm also has the same strict policies for portrait rights of its talents with its parent company. Among others, images of their talents are prohibited to appear in websites, though recently, on 28 February 2011, the ban was lifted and loosened the regulations (it is still prohibited in news sites).
The company's releases are currently being distributed by Avex Asia in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Sony Music in Japan, SM Entertainment in South Korea, GMM Grammy in Thailand, and recently, Universal Records in the Philippines.
Artists
J Storm produced Arashi's singles and albums since 2002 with the release of the single, "A Day in Our Life" after being signed under Pony Canyon from their debut in 1999. In 2007, Hey! Say! JUMP debuted and began to release singles and albums under J Storm. They became the largest group to debut in Johnny's history. In 2008, another Johnny's group, Tokio, began to release under the J Storm label.
J-One Records
J-One records is KAT-TUN's exclusive record label. It was named J-One for the label's thrust of releasing chart-topping releases. Currently, all of their released singles and albums have reached the top of the Oricon charts.