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[acchikocchi]

For those familiar with Johnny's and/or Japanese business: okay, so, Johnny's & Associates is a kabushiki gaisha (K. K.). That's translated as "public company", but is it? Johnny owns 60%, Mary 10%, Julie 10%, and Izu Kikue 10%. The remaining 10% isn't publically traded (is it? it doesn't seem to be! if it is where are my financial reports!) and a

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[pixisticks]

The remaining 10% is owned by Satan because Johnny was tired of striking up deals to make JE boys immortally beautiful all the time.

*shot*

XD I have no idea. Why are you interested?

[matchynishi]

but you know way more than me!! *has very little idea of what you're talking about* :O

[ky_rin]

Why are Avex and SM a dream...? I sort of understand, sort of don't... I don't think I'm the business/finance type of person at all :|

[acchikocchi]

Because as they are both publicly traded corporations, they're required to disclose a certain amount of financial information to the public. So you can find all kind of records on their corporate website and even more, for SM, locked in the dbsg comm - the latter is in English, which is especially nice for me. :)

(Assuming it's all correct, of course. XD)

In other words, I'm just insatiably curious and they cater to me. ;)

[ky_rin]

Ah, I wonder if it got translated to English because of the hole only13 debacle and fans buying SME's shares XD

Maybe JE just doesn't have enough fans curious enough about it to translate them.

(who knows?)

That works! :D

[acchikocchi]

Someone posted information from an English-language business website in the wake of the lawsuit, actually! That's what's nice, it doesn't have to be translated - it was information provided for an English-speaking audience. :) The thing with JE is that this kind of information simply isn't available - it's notorious for its opacity, as a matter of fact. Which is why I assumed it was a private company, but apparently it's... not, in name at least. (In practice I don't know how it could possibly get more private. XD)

[ettezag]

Does... does it makes a difference? It's kind of sad that I have gotten so confused from one paragraph. :(

[samenashi]

Omg this post made me so happy. I would pay an insane amount of money for a book on the intricate details of the business side of JE. Srsly. Fascinating. T_T

[acchikocchi]

sdjskla;ds you have no idea how reassuring this comment is, the others were starting to make me think this was really unusual or something. XD;;; I would kill for the book you describe, or a good look at their account books. This article is fascinating, though only peripherally related to JE. The site it's from, Neojaponisme, sheds some interesting light on JE every so often - I'll see if I can find some of the older posts.