Nojima Corporation

The company was established in 1959 as Nojima Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (野島電気工業社) in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, as a company selling electrical products.^[1] Nojima Electric was set up in 1962 and the company was reorganized in 1982, changing its name to Nojima Corporation in 1991.^[2]

In 2007, Nojima and Shinden merged; Laox, which up until then was Shinden's largest shareholder, continued to hold shares for Nojima. In 2009, 200 Laox employees were hired by Nojima after an acquisition failed.^[3] In 2013, the company set up a subsidiary in Phnom Penh, Nojima (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., with capital of 250 million yen.^[2]

On May 7, 2015, Nojima announced the merger of its ITN and ITX subsidiaries. ITN was created by Nojima to acquire shares.^[4] In 2019, it acquired Courts' Asian operations.^[5]

Nojima entered the satellite television business on October 1, 2021, with the acquisition of three channels from Sony Pictures Entertainment and J:COM: AXN Entertainment, AXN Japan and Mystery Channel.^[6][7] The AXN subsidiary acquired Animax and Kids Station from Sony Pictures Entertainment in late 2023; the sale closed on April 1, 2024;^[8] at the end of 2024, it acquired Vaio.^[9][10]