93-450: Yodobashi Camera Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社ヨドバシカメラ , Kabushiki gaisha Yodobashi Kamera ) is a major Japanese retail chain specializing in electronics, PCs, cameras and photographic equipment. Yodobashi Camera's sales rank fourth among consumer electronics mass retailers in Japan, after Yamada Denki , Bic Camera , and K's Holdings. There are 24 stores operating as of May 2021. In recent years,
186-531: A ⟨k⟩ , is often used, but the original Japanese pronunciation is kabushiki gaisha , with a ⟨g⟩ , owing to rendaku . A kabushiki gaisha must include " 株式会社 " in its name (Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Companies Act). In a company name, " 株式会社 " can be used as a prefix (e.g. 株式会社 電通 , kabushiki gaisha Dentsū , a style called 前株 , mae-kabu ) or as a suffix (e.g. トヨタ自動車 株式会社 , Toyota Jidōsha kabushiki gaisha ,
279-423: A (so-called) "close company" ( 非公開会社 , hi-kōkai gaisha ) , in which case the company (e.g. its board of directors or a shareholders' meeting, as defined in the articles of incorporation) must approve any transfer of shares between shareholders; this designation must be made in the articles of incorporation. The articles must be sealed by the incorporator(s) and notarized by a civil law notary , then filed with
372-600: A 20,000 m2 or more sales floor). There was initially a plan to open a store in front of Nagoya Station , but it was announced on 14 May 2015 that this had been canceled due to financial problems arising from delays with the Gate Tower Building opening (ultimately Bic Camera opened in the JR Gate Tower premises). The former Kokudo Headquarters close to the Harajuku Station was acquired for
465-511: A K.K. is carried out by one or more incorporators ( 発起人 , hokkinin , sometimes referred to as "promoters") . Although seven incorporators were required as recently as the 1980s, a K.K. now only needs one incorporator, which may be an individual or a corporation. If there are multiple incorporators, they must sign a partnership agreement before incorporating the company. The purpose statement requires some specialized knowledge, as Japan follows an ultra vires doctrine and does not allow
558-468: A K.K. must have a board of directors ( 取締役会 , torishimariyaku kai ) consisting of at least three individuals. Directors have a statutory term of office of two years, and auditors have a term of four years. Small companies can exist with only one or two directors, with no statutory term of office, and without a board of directors ( 取締役会非設置会社 , torishimariyaku-kai hi-setchi-gaisha ) . In such companies, decisions are made via shareholder meeting and
651-477: A K.K. to act beyond its purposes. Judicial or administrative scriveners are often hired to draft the purposes of a new company. Additionally, the articles of incorporation must contain the following if applicable: Other matters may also be included, such as limits on the number of directors and auditors. The Corporation Code allows a K.K. to be formed as a "stock company that is not a public company" ( 公開会社でない株式会社 , kōkai gaisha denai kabushiki gaisha ) , or
744-422: A disadvantage with respect to their prices being not as low as those on other e-commerce websites, this is compensated for by issues with the other websites such as additional delivery fees, the time and effort required to complete transactions, shipment and delivery times, and the fear of problems such as products not arriving and poor after sales service. Leveraging the credibility and scale of Yodobashi Camera with
837-690: A half-year full renovation of the Yokohama Mitsukoshi site to open Multimedia Yokohama (Yodobashi Yokohama), thus consolidating the Nishiguchi Gobangai (5th Avenue at the west entrance) operations; acquiring the north side Kichijōji Station site (previously the Tokyo branch of the Kintetsu Department Store) and remodelling the buildings to open Multimedia Kichijoji (Yodobashi Kichijoji). 5 November 2010 saw
930-552: A large number of the available products to be seen at a glance, facilitating high volume sales at low prices. The stores were in relatively small buildings at prime locations in front of train stations with heavy foot traffic. Catchy, simple versions of the songs in Yodobashi Camera TV commercials were played in the stores. The store name always included " Shinjuku Station West Entrance " when mentioned to promote as sense of familiarity in potential customers unfamiliar with
1023-653: A large public square on the west side completed in 1941. Kondo's plan also called for extending the Tokyu Toyoko Line to a new underground terminal on the west side of the station and constructing an east–west underground line that would be served by the Seibu Railway and the Tokyo Kosoku Railway (forerunner of Tokyo Metro ), while the Keio and Odakyu lines would use above-ground terminals to
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#17327767906571116-399: A minor issue when deciding how to structure a business in Japan. As all publicly traded companies follow the K.K. structure, smaller businesses often choose to incorporate as a K.K. simply to appear more prestigious. In addition to income taxes, K.K.s must also pay registration taxes to the national government and may be subject to local taxes. Generally, the power to bring actions against
1209-513: A price of less than ¥50,000 per share (effective 1982-2003 ), or operate with paid-in capital of less than ¥10 million (effective 1991–2005). On June 29, 2005, the Diet of Japan passed a new Companies Act ( 会社法 , kaisha-hō ) , which took effect on May 1, 2006. A kabushiki gaisha may be started with capital as low as ¥1, making the total cost of a K.K. incorporation approximately ¥240,000 (about US$ 2,500) in taxes and notarization fees. Under
1302-635: A range of 8,000 products, expanding to reach 3 .7 million products in July 2015. High sales growth has also been achieved with 33.778 billion yen, 35.5 billion yen, 45.8 billion yen and 65.0 billion yen respectively for the fiscal years ending in March 2010, 2011, FY2012 and FY2013, and sales are expected to be 100 billion yen in FY2015 This growth was due to an increased number of products, free delivery for all products, even down to
1395-413: A significant area around Shinjuku Station West. The location of the first ever store is the current Multimedia East Building. Since the 1980s, surrounding buildings have been purchased for store expansion with repeated renovations to combine multiple buildings into a single entity. Differences in the heights of the floor surfaces remain as a reminder of the numerous buildings that have been combined to create
1488-404: A single battery, and a proprietary distribution network. From the original "rail-side" retail outlet strategy with brick-and-mortar stores, the company had prepared for direct shipment from distribution centers to every home for large household appliances that are difficult for customers to transport home and take up significant shelf space in prime retail locations. Sales were increased by expanding
1581-816: A site with a building for conversion. Yodobashi's inventory and distribution functions have been optimized using a large warehouse distribution network that began with YAC Kawasaki in Tonomachi (King Skyfront) in 2005. YAC is an acronym for "Yodobashi Assembly Center". Yodobashi's first store in Shinjuku West has expanded into a complex of 12 pavilions: Multimedia North Building, South Building, East Building, Travel Building, Camera Building, an adult (erotic) software sales area, Print Building, Repair & Film Building, Mobile Phone Accessories Building, Game & Hobby Building, Gashapon (vending machine toys in capsules) and Multi-purpose Clock & Watch Building, occupying
1674-537: A stop on Japan Railway's Akabane-Shinagawa line (now part of the Yamanote Line ). Shinjuku was still a quiet community at the time and the station was not heavily trafficked at first. The opening of the Chūō Line (1889), Keiō Line (1915) and Odakyū Line (1923) led to increased traffic through the station. Japanese government urban planner Kensaburo Kondo designed a major revamp of the station in 1933, which included
1767-402: A store to be opened in 2015. The plan was for a medium size store with a total floor area of approximately 10,000 m2, based on a concept of youth-focused communication with a full range of smart phones, tablets and related merchandise. The plan is for this store to be built on the site of the original Multimedia Sendai, opened as the anchor store for Yodobashi Sendai Building No. 1. The timing of
1860-454: A style called 後株 , ato-kabu ). Many Japanese companies translate the phrase " 株式会社 " in their name as " Company, Limited "—this is very often abbreviated as " Co., Ltd. "—but others use the more Americanized translations "Corporation" or "Incorporated". Texts in England often refer to kabushiki kaisha as " joint stock companies ". While that is close to a literal translation of the term,
1953-696: Is a major commuter route stretching southwest through the suburbs and out towards the coastal city of Odawara and the mountains of Hakone . The ten platforms are built on two levels beneath the Odakyu department store; three express service tracks (six platforms) on the ground level and two tracks (four platforms) on the level below. Each track has platforms on both sides in order to completely separate boarding and alighting passengers . Chest-high platform screen doors were added to platforms 4 and 5 in September 2012. Keio operates two sections of Shinjuku Station,
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#17327767906572046-630: Is a major railway station in Tokyo , Japan, that serves as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central/eastern Tokyo (the special wards ) and Western Tokyo on the inter-city rail , commuter rail , and subway lines. The station straddles the boundary between the Shinjuku and Shibuya special wards. In Shinjuku, it is in the Nishi-Shinjuku and Shinjuku districts; in Shibuya, it
2139-510: Is a type of company ( 会社 , kaisha ) defined under the Companies Act of Japan . The term is often translated as "stock company", " joint-stock company " or "stock corporation". The term kabushiki gaisha in Japan refers to any joint-stock company regardless of country of origin or incorporation; however, outside Japan the term refers specifically to joint-stock companies incorporated in Japan. In Latin script, kabushiki kaisha , with
2232-593: Is also combined into one Unicode character at code point U+337F ㍿ SQUARE CORPORATION , while the parenthesized form can also be represented with a single character, U+3231 ㈱ PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH STOCK as well as parentheses around U+682A 株 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-682A and its romanization U+33CD ㏍ SQUARE KK . These forms, however, only exist for backward compatibility with older Japanese character encodings and Unicode and should be avoided when possible in new text. The first kabushiki gaisha
2325-454: Is close to a train station, with the company embracing a "rail-side" strategy of being convenient and visible to potential customers traveling by train. Other companies in the industry such as Bic Camera and Yamada Denki under the LABI banner use the same strategy. In most cases, with notable exceptions such as Yodobashi Nagoya, Yodobashi Camera acquires land and constructs premises or purchases
2418-667: Is connected by underground passageways and shopping malls to Nearby non-connected stations (within 500 meters of an underground passageway or station) include There is a bus terminal at the west exit servicing both local and long-distance buses and a JR Highway Bus terminal at the New South Gates. On April 4, 2016, the new bus terminal and commercial facilities nearby the south exit, named Busta Shinjuku [ ja ] ( Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal ), opened for service. Considerable numbers of coaches and airport buses depart from this new terminal. The figures below are
2511-664: Is expected to be transformed by 2020 and rebuilt as a skyscraper in conjunction with the MY Shinjuku Building No. 2 site, creating approximately 40,000 m2 of retail space. The land and buildings (main building and loft building) of the Seibu store in Sapporo, that closed in September 2009, were acquired in January 2011 to be remodeled as a large shopping complex. The scheduled opening date is not yet known. The area of
2604-801: Is in the Yoyogi and Sendagaya districts. The station was used by an average of 3.59 million people per day in 2018, making it the world's busiest railway station by far (and registered as such with Guinness World Records ). The main East Japan Railway Company (JR East) station and the directly adjacent private railways have a total of 35 platforms, an underground arcade, above-ground arcade and numerous hallways with another 17 platforms (53 total) that can be accessed through hallways to five directly connected stations without surfacing outside. The entire above/underground complex has well over 200 exits. Shinjuku Station opened in 1885 as
2697-629: Is referred to as a company with a board of statutory auditors ( 監査役会設置会社 , kansayaku-kai setchi-gaisha ) . Close K.K.s may also have a single person serving as director and statutory auditor, regardless of capital or liabilities. A statutory auditor may be any person who is not an employee or director of the company. In practice, the position is often filled by a very senior employee close to retirement, or by an outside attorney or accountant. Japanese law does not designate any corporate officer positions. Most Japanese-owned kabushiki gaisha do not have "officers" per se , but are directly managed by
2790-428: Is served by the following railway systems: The station is centered around facilities servicing the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) lines. These consist of eight ground-level island platforms (16 tracks) on a north–south axis, connected by two overhead and two underground concourses. Most JR services here are urban and suburban mass transit lines, although many limited express services to Kōfu and Matsumoto on
2883-470: The Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult attempted a chemical terrorist attack by setting off a cyanide gas device in a toilet in the underground concourse, barely a month after the gas attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 13, left 6,252 people with non-fatal injuries, severely injured 50 people, and caused 984 cases of temporary vision problems. This time the attack was thwarted by staff who extinguished
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2976-573: The Chūō Main Line and to Nikkō and Kinugawa Onsen via joint operations with the private Tōbu Railway also begin and end at this station, including Narita Express services to and from Narita International Airport . The JR section alone handles an average of 1.5 million passengers a day. The terminus for the private Odakyu Odawara Line is parallel to the JR platforms on the west side and handles an average of 490,000 passengers daily. This
3069-779: The JNR Osaka Railroad Administration site north of the Osaka Station from the Japanese National Railway Settlement Corporation ( JNRSC ). 150 billion yen was invested in the construction of Yodobashi Umeda that opened in November 2001. Yodobashi Umeda resembles a large shopping center with the core Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Umeda supplemented by specialty stores and restaurants. Multimedia Umeda has annual sales of more than 100 billion yen,
3162-1204: The Kanto region (8 in Tokyo, 2 in both Yokohama and Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture , 1 in Saitama , 1 in Chiba , and 1 in Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture ). Outside of the Kanto region , Sapporo in Hokkaido , Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture and Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture in the Tohoku region , Niigata in Niigata Prefecture and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture in the Chubu area (only in
3255-628: The Shinkansen network, and the 1973 Shinkansen Basic Plan, still in force, specifies that the station should be the southern terminus of the Jōetsu Shinkansen line to Niigata . While construction of the Ōmiya -Shinjuku link never started and the Jōetsu line presently terminates in Tokyo Station , the right of way, including an area underneath the station, remains reserved. On 5 May 1995,
3348-602: The Toei Shinjuku subway line and the Keiō New Line are distinctively called Keiō New Line Shinjuku Station ( 新線新宿駅 , Shinsen Shinjuku-eki ) and consist of two platforms stretching east–west five floors beneath the Kōshū Kaidō avenue to the southwest of the JR section. The concourse is managed by Keio Corporation but is in a separate location from the main Keio platforms. Further south (and deeper underground) are
3441-557: The Vietnam War . The station was a major site for student protests in 1968 and 1969 , the height of civil unrest in postwar Japan. On 21 October 1968, 290,000 marchers participated in International Anti-War Day, taking over Shinjuku station and forcing trains to stop. In May and June 1969, members of the antiwar group Beheiren carrying guitars and calling themselves "folk guerrillas" led weekly singalongs in
3534-577: The CD department and were made of paper (card stock) with a blue-green base color. The card was valid for one year (with the possibility of being transferred to someone else through a procedure at the sales point). In November 1990 a transition was made to a Gold Point Card made of plastic that could be used in any store section. It can be said that today's point cards where a point card is issued to an assigned cardholder and points are managed electronically were initially devised by Yodobashi Camera. At that time when
3627-585: The Illinois Business Corporation Act of 1933, giving kabushiki gaisha many traits of American corporations , and to be more exact, Illinois corporations. Over time, Japanese and U.S. corporate law diverged, and K.K. assumed many characteristics not found in U.S. corporations. For instance, a K.K. could not repurchase its own stock (a restriction lifted by the amendment of the Commercial Code in 2001), issue stock for
3720-734: The JR East station (2001–present) The station and other parts of the Toei Ōedo Line are referenced in the Digimon Adventure franchise. Contemporary British painter Carl Randall (who spent ten years living in Tokyo as an artist) depicted the station area in his large oil painting Shinjuku , exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2013. Note : Stations in italics (Hatsudai and Hatagaya) are on
3813-518: The Keio department store. It consists of three platforms stretching north to south. An additional thin platform between Platforms 2 and 3 is used for alighting only. This suburban commuter line links Shinjuku to the city of Hachiōji to the west. Chest-high platform edge doors were introduced on the Keio Line platforms in March 2014. The doors are different colours for each platform; the doors on Platform 2 are green. The shared facilities for
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3906-478: The Legal Affairs Bureau in the jurisdiction where the company will have its head office. In a direct incorporation, each incorporator receives a specified amount of stock as designated in the articles of incorporation. Each incorporator must then promptly pay its share of the starting capital of the company, and if no directors have been designated in the articles of incorporation, meet to determine
3999-621: The Metro Promenade underground mall. Many department stores and shopping malls are built directly into the station. These include In addition to the above, the Metro Promenade, which is an underground mall owned by Tokyo Metro, extends eastwards from the station beneath Shinjuku-dori avenue, all the way to the adjacent Shinjuku-sanchōme station with 60 exits along the way. The Metro Promenade in turn connects to Shinjuku Subnade, another underground shopping mall, which leads onto Seibu Railway 's Seibu-Shinjuku station. Shinjuku Station
4092-467: The Ministry of Finance. Under the new Company Law, public and other non-close K.K.s may either have a statutory auditor, or a nominating committee ( 指名委員会 , shimei-iin-kai ) , auditing committee ( 監査委員会 , kansa-iin-kai ) and compensation committee ( 報酬委員会 , hōshū-iin kai ) structure similar to that of American public corporations. If the company has an auditing committee, it
4185-484: The Shinjuku West Main Store, the lyrics were written by the company founder, Terukazu Fujisawa. Initially, a male choral group sang over march-style background music. But a male-female version and a female version (frequently used), a male version, and an English version with a male/female duet were added later. In 1986 the theme song was changed to a rock song by the female vocalist Sumiko Fukuda. At
4278-837: The Tokai area), the city of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture , the city of Osaka in Osaka Prefecture in the Kinki area , and the city of Fukuoka in Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu all have each one store. Expansion to all three of the large metropolitan areas and to all of the central regional metropolitan areas with the exception of Hiroshima was achieved with the opening of the store in Nagoya in 2015). Each store
4371-553: The amount of damages being claimed, shareholders rarely had the motivation to sue on the company's behalf. In 1993, the Commercial Code was amended to reduce the filing fee for all shareholder derivative suits to ¥8,200 per claim. This led to a rise in the number of derivative suits heard by Japanese courts, from 31 pending cases in 1992 to 286 in 1999, and to a number of very high-profile shareholder actions, such as those against Daiwa Bank and Nomura Securities Shinjuku Station Shinjuku Station ( 新宿駅 , Shinjuku-eki )
4464-684: The burning device. The station facilities on the Marunouchi Line were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004. Station numbering was introduced to the Odakyu terminal in 2014 with Shinjuku being assigned station number OH01. A major expansion of the JR terminal was completed in April 2016, adding a 32-story office tower, bus terminal, taxi terminal, and numerous shops and restaurants. Station numbering
4557-399: The consumption tax rate was 3%, tax-inclusive pricing was displayed. Yodobashi Camera initiated a policy of "not receiving consumption tax" in 1992, but in April 1997, the tax rate increased to 5% impacting profits, so commencing 1 April 1998, one year later, the tax was displayed separately (following the amendment to the law on 1 April 2004, the tax was not shown separately but was included in
4650-425: The decision-making power of the directors is relatively limited. As soon as a third director is designated such companies must form a board. At least one director is designated as a Representative Director ( 代表取締役 , daihyō-torishimariyaku ) , holds the corporate seal and is empowered to represent the company in transactions. The Representative Director must "report" to the board of directors every three months;
4743-502: The delivery service means small e-commerce websites cannot compete and the nuisance of show-rooming is converted into actual sales for Yodobashi Camera. Yodobashi Camera is also aiming to make inroads into the user bases of other major e-commerce websites such as online supermarkets, online bookstores and online pharmacies with an expanded product range including daily necessities, food, books and pharmaceutical drugs. "Yodobashi Camera no Uta" ( ヨドバシカメラの歌 , lit. "Yodobashi Camera Song") uses
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#17327767906574836-451: The directly managed selling space is expected to be more than 20,000 m2. Yodobashi Camera is conducting a study on the relocation of the current Multimedia Sapporo at Sapporo Station North to the new store. It is also studying integrated redevelopment with the city of Sapporo and the property owners of the surrounding buildings. Yodobashi Camera operates the e-commerce website yodobashi.com for online shopping. Operations commenced in 1998 with
4929-415: The directors on the corporation's behalf is granted to the statutory auditor. Historically, derivative suits by shareholders were rare in Japan. Shareholders have been permitted to sue on the corporation's behalf since the postwar Americanization of the Commercial Code; however, this power was severely limited by the nature of court costs in Japan. Because the cost to file a civil action is proportional to
5022-618: The directors, one of whom generally has the title of president ( 社長 , sha-chō ) . The Japanese equivalent of a corporate vice president is a department chief ( 部長 , bu-chō ) . Traditionally, under the lifetime employment system, directors and department chiefs begin their careers as line employees of the company and work their way up the management hierarchy over time. This is not the case in most foreign-owned companies in Japan, and some native companies have also abandoned this system in recent years in favor of encouraging more lateral movement in management. Corporate officers often have
5115-646: The east entrance to the Shinjuku Station as well. All large stores opened since the launch of Multimedia Sendai in 1997 bear the "Multimedia" name. The majority of the existing stores were also remodeled to fit the Multimedia format, and as of March 2016 the only stores not bearing the "Multimedia" name were the Shinjuku West Flagship, Hachiōji and Chiba outlets. In 1997 the company successfully bid 101 billion yen to purchase
5208-417: The exact meaning of this statutory provision is unclear, but some legal scholars interpret it to mean that the board must meet every three months. In 2015, the requirement that at least one director and one Representative Director must be a resident of Japan was changed. It is not required to have a resident Representative Director although it can be convenient to do so. Directors are mandatories ( agents ) of
5301-491: The facts of the violence as claimed by the plaintiff and ordered the Yodobashi employees and Yodobashi to pay damages of one hundred thousand yen on account of the assault by the Yodobashi employees. Furthermore, although the temping agency and its employees were ordered to pay combined damages of about 1.5 million yen, any responsibility of the employees of Yodobashi Camera and DDI Pocket was denied. Some people involved in
5394-520: The ground level, on the west side of Shinjuku Station. Keiō Shinjuku Station and Shōsen Shinjuku Ekimae Station were closed. This was because the trains faced difficulty in climbing up the slopes of the bridge over the governmental railway after one of the nearby transformer substations was destroyed by an air raid . The site of Keiō Shinjuku Station near Shinjuku-Sanchōme subway station is now occupied by two buildings owned by Keiō: Keiō Shinjuku Sanchōme Building and Keiō Shinjuku Oiwake Building. Shinjuku
5487-544: The highest sales of any retail outlet in Japan. Subsequently, Yodobashi Camera opened a series of superstores close to train stations taking advantage of department store and rail network hubs. These include: building the multimedia store at the Hakata Station Shinkansen entrance; acquiring a freight depot site on the east side of Akihabara Station from the JNRSC for Multimedia Akiba (Yodobashi Akiba);
5580-404: The incorporator, and then make payment for his or her shares by a date specified by the incorporator(s). Capital must be received in a commercial bank account designated by the incorporator(s), and the bank must provide certification that payment has been made. Once the capital has been received and certified, the incorporation may be registered at the Legal Affairs Bureau. Under present law,
5673-470: The initial directors and other officers. The other method is an "incorporation by offering," in which each incorporator becomes the stock underwriter of a specified number of shares (at least one each), and the other shares are offered to other investors. As in a direct incorporation, the incorporators must then hold an organizational meeting to appoint the initial directors and other officers. Any person wishing to receive shares must submit an application to
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#17327767906575766-523: The judicial field have criticized this judgment as being unfair and skewed too far to the side of the companies involved, because the responsibilities of the companies using the employee's services were not recognized despite the fact that the victim suffered violence within the company premises. Kabushiki gaisha A kabushiki gaisha ( Japanese : 株式会社 , pronounced [kabɯɕi̥ki ɡaꜜiɕa] ; lit. ' share company ' ) or kabushiki kaisha , commonly abbreviated K.K. or KK ,
5859-437: The legal title of shihainin , which makes them authorized representatives of the corporation at a particular place of business, in addition to a common-use title. Kabushiki gaisha are subject to double taxation of profits and dividends, as are corporations in most countries. In contrast to many other countries, however, Japan also levies double taxes on close corporations ( yugen gaisha and gōdō gaisha ). This makes taxation
5952-576: The location. Cameras at the time tended to be high-end with prices as high as several hundred thousand yen for a single camera, but customers were incentivized to spend the train fare and time going to inspect these cameras costing tens of thousands of yen below market prices. There was also the advantage of being able to compare products, which attracted consumers. The Yodobashi Camera product range expanded significantly over time to include home electronics, PCs, audio visual (AV) equipment, toys, branded goods and reading material. The Multimedia Pavilion concept
6045-403: The mail order department to create local distribution centers for direct home delivery of even large products. The convenience of online shopping is used to counter purchasing behavior known as "show-rooming", where customers examine the products in-store and purchase from another retailer online. Yodabashi provides free Wi-Fi to facilitate price comparisons and although Yodobashi Camera may be at
6138-660: The melody of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic " (to a similar tune to the Japanese-language nursery rhymes "Gonbee-san no Akachan" ( 権兵衛さんの赤ちゃん , lit. "Gonbee's Baby") and "Tomodachi Sanka" ( ともだち讃歌 , lit. "Friends' Hymn") ). There are arrangements of this jingle for specific locations that are used in TV commercials and are broadcast within the stores. For a version featuring the Yamanote and Chuo train lines for use in
6231-418: The official number of passengers entering and exiting (except for JR East) each day released by each train operator. The figure for JR East only includes entering passengers. Average number of passengers per day by fiscal year for the JR East station (1913–1935) Average number of passengers per day by fiscal year for the JR East station (1953–2000) Average number of passengers per day by fiscal year for
6324-422: The old Commercial Code, a K.K. required starting capital of ¥10 million (about US$ 105,000); a lower capital requirement was later instituted, but corporations with under ¥3 million in assets were barred from issuing dividends , and companies were required to increase their capital to ¥10 million within five years of formation. The main steps in incorporation are the following: The incorporation of
6417-453: The online shopping platform has been developed to become the second largest in Japan only behind Amazon (though sales of Amazon are over 10 times higher). Yodobashi Camera was founded by Terukazu Fujisawa ( 藤沢 昭和 , Fujisawa Terukazu ) in 1960. The original product line up focused on cameras and photographic equipment. Fujisawa adopted a technique of opening up the entrances of his first stores in Shinjuku , Ueno and Yokohama to allow
6510-424: The opening of Multimedia Kyoto , purpose built on the site of the Kyoto branch of the Kintetsu Department Store (Platz Kintetsu Kyoto) in front of JR Kyōto Station 's Karasuma Central Entrance. Yodobashi Akiba, Yodobashi Kichijoji, Yodobashi Yokohama, Kyoto Yodobashi and Yodobashi Hakata are large shopping centers that include multiple tenants in the same way as Yodobashi Umeda. The Multimedia Nagoya Matsuzaka Store
6603-412: The opening was initially set for 2014, later changed to October 2018 due to the redevelopment of Sendai Station East outlet. The area of the directly managed selling space is expected to be approximately 25,000 m2. Before construction, the original Multimedia Sendai was closed on 24 April 2012 and operations temporarily relocated (Yodobashi Sendai Building No. 2, Floors 1–3) from 26 April. The sales space in
6696-462: The price). At that time, the percentage of points earned was 5%, and in cases where payment was made in cash, with J Debit or prepaid e-money this was increased to 10%, for credit cards and store finance it was increased from 3% to 8% (Visa debit cards that subsequently appeared on the market were also 8%). Furthermore, an additional rate may also be added with specific products and for a limited time period. The percentage of points added with credit cards
6789-516: The second floor). In the late 1980s, Seibu planned to build an underground terminal on the east side of Shinjuku but indefinitely postponed the plan in 1995 due to costs and declining passenger growth. On 8 August 1967, a freight train carrying jet fuel bound for the U.S. air bases at Tachikawa and Yokota collided with another freight train and caught fire on the Chūō Rapid tracks. The incident stoked ongoing political controversy in Japan regarding
6882-732: The shareholders, and the Representative Director is a mandatory of the board. Any action outside of these mandates is considered a breach of mandatory duty. Every K.K. with multiple directors must have at least one statutory auditor ( 監査役 , kansayaku ) . Statutory auditors report to the shareholders, and are empowered to demand financial and operational reports from the directors. K.K.s with capital of over ¥500m, liabilities of over ¥2bn and/or publicly traded securities are required to have three statutory auditors, and must also have an annual audit performed by an outside CPA . Public K.K.s must also file securities law reports with
6975-600: The superstore. This is particularly noticeable in the Multimedia North Building with the largest area that was converted from a former office building and adjacent multi-story car park purchased in 1998. Initially, the first floor was partially open and the sales area went as far as the third floor, but the selling space was expanded to cover the entire building, now consisting of a basement floor and 8 floors above ground connected by an escalator. In addition, Yodobashi Camera opened Multimedia Shinjuku East at
7068-620: The temping agency and others. The worker was dispatched to the Yodobashi Camera mobile phone sales department where he was subsequently told that he "does not smile enough". In the trial, the Tokyo District Court (Kenichi Kato, presiding judge) rendered a judgment ordering that Yodobashi Camera employees, Yodobashi Camera and the employees of the temping agency and the temping agency itself pay total compensation of approximately 5.6 million yen. This temporary worker
7161-503: The temporary store was roughly 1.5 times the size of the old store. The "MY [Meiji Yasuda] Shinjuku Building No. 2" (previously Yasuda Seimei Building No. 2), opposite the Shinjuku West Multimedia Store, was acquired in July 2010, with the plan to construct a newly built skyscraper following demolition and open for business in 2017. The Shinjuku West Flagship Store, currently operating out of multiple buildings,
7254-588: The terminal were on the Kōshū Kaidō highway, which crosses the Yamanote Line and the Chūō Line in front of the south entrance of Shinjuku Station by a bridge. The Keiō Line had a station for access to Shinjuku Station, named Teishajō-mae Station ( 停車場前駅 ) and renamed in 1937 Shōsen Shinjuku Ekimae Station ( 省線新宿駅前駅 ) . In July 1945, the terminal of the Keiō Line was relocated to the present location, though on
7347-471: The time of the stores founding the "Yama-No-Te Line" was called the "Yamate" and in the English version it was called "Yamate line". A version recorded by the anime song vocalist MIQ was first broadcast in 1990 with the "Yamate-sen" train line lyric retained, although this was a short-lived change. In April 1989, the first point cards using barcodes in Japan were introduced. These were initially limited to
7440-538: The traditional Keio Line stub terminal and a separate through station connecting the Keio New Line with the Toei Shinjuku Line. In 2019, 788,567 passengers used the Keio complex daily (Keio and Keio New Lines), which makes it among the busiest among the non- JR Group railways of Japan. The Keio Line concourse is located to the west of the Odakyu line concourse, two floors below ground level under
7533-401: The two are not precisely the same. The Japanese government once endorsed "business corporation" as an official translation but now uses the more literal translation "stock company." Japanese often abbreviate " 株式会社 " in a company name on signage (including the sides of their vehicles) to 株 in parentheses , as, for example, " ABC㈱ ." The full, formal name would then be " ABC株式会社 ". 株式会社
7626-498: The two north-to-south Toei Ōedo subway line platforms. Toei Ōedo Line 's two underground platforms stretch north–south to the south of the Toei Shinjuku Line and Keio New Line facilities. This is on the 7th basement floor of Tokyo prefectural road 414(Yotsuya-Tsunohazu Ave.). Tokyo Metro 's two Marunouchi Line underground platforms stretch east–west to the north of the JR and Odakyu facilities, directly below
7719-471: The underground plaza outside the west exit of the station, attracting crowds of thousands. Participants described it as a "liberated zone" and a "community of encounter." In July, riot police cleared the plaza with tear gas and changed signs in the station to read "West Exit Concourse" instead of "West Exit Plaza." The incident represented a significant defeat for public activism in Tokyo. There have been plans at various points in history to connect Shinjuku to
7812-414: The west of the JR station. These plans were suspended upon the onset of World War II but influenced the current layout of the station area. Subway service ultimately began in 1959. The Seibu Shinjuku Line was extended from Takadanobaba Station to Seibu Shinjuku Station in 1952. Seibu Shinjuku was built as a temporary station pending a planned redevelopment of the east side of Shinjuku Station, which
7905-474: Was affiliated with a temping agency in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo from October 2002 to March 2003. The worker was working under an illegal two-layer dispatch structure with the temping agency → DDI Pocket (now Softbank Mobile ) →Yodobashi Camera. The worker endured acts of violence committed against him on more than 4 occasions by temping agency employees and Yodobashi Camera employees. The judgment recognized
7998-491: Was created, starting with the purpose-built Multimedia Sendai on the site of the former JNR Settlement Corporation freight yard in front of the Sendai train station, where the existing stores were combined and relocated at the east entrance (March 1997), significantly increasing shop floor area. Yodobashi Camera headquarters moved from Kitashinjuku, Shinjuku , Tokyo to the current location in March 2019. There are 15 stores in
8091-552: Was increased to 10% on 25 June 2015, the same as for cash, for users who standardized their points information at "Yodobashi.com" Compatibility with the Edy payment system was ended in the middle of May 2012 and updates to existing cards or re-issue results in a change to cards without Edy compatibility. There was a trial where a temporary worker as well as the worker's mother, Harimi Shimoda (a writer), sought compensatory damages of ¥18 million yen from Yodobashi Camera, employees of
8184-696: Was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Shinjuku being assigned station numbers JB10 for the Chūō-Sobu line, JS20 for the Shonan-Shinjuku line, JA11 for the Saikyō line, JC05 for the Chuo line rapid, and JY17 for the Yamanote line. At the same time, JR East assigned the station a 3-letter code to its major transfer stations; Shinjuku was assigned the code "SJK". In 2020, the east–west free passageway
8277-564: Was located several blocks east of the government railway (presently JR) station. The terminal was first named Shinjuku-Oiwake Station ( 新宿追分駅 ) and was on the street near the Isetan department store. In 1927, the station was moved from the street to a newly built terminal adjacent to the original station. The station building housed a department store. The station name was changed to Yotsuya-Shinjuku Station ( 四谷新宿駅 ) in 1930 and again to Keiō Shinjuku Station ( 京王新宿駅 ) in 1937. The tracks from
8370-638: Was opened on 29 October 2015, covering floors 4 to 6 of the south building of the Matsuzakaya store in Nagoya. There had been no store in the Tokai region up to that point. The Matsuzakaya store in Nagoya was expected to revitalize the area as there was no large electronics retailer in the Sakae area . The 7,200 m2 sales floor makes this is a medium-sized Yodobashi outlet (stores near train stations typically have
8463-436: Was opened, shortening the time required for pedestrians to pass between the east and west exits by 10 minutes. A major redevelopment of the station and the surrounding area began in July 2021 with the aim of improving pedestrian flow and making it easier and faster to cut through the east and west sides of the station. Construction is expected to continue until 2047. When the Keio Line extended to Shinjuku in 1915, its terminal
8556-632: Was the Dai-Ichi Bank , incorporated in 1873. Rules regarding kabushiki gaisha were set out in the Commercial Code of Japan , and was originally based on laws regulating German Aktiengesellschaft (which also means share company). However, during the United States-led Allied Occupation of Japan following World War II, the occupation authorities introduced revisions to the Commercial Code based on
8649-459: Was to feature a large station building that would house a new Seibu terminal on its second floor. Seibu abandoned its plan to use the building due to a lack of space for trains longer than six cars; the building is now known as Lumine Est and retains some design features originally intended to accommodate the Seibu terminal (in particular, a very high ceiling on the first floor and a very low ceiling on
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