Nihon Goraku Bussan

Nihon Goraku Bussan

Founded: 1960-05-31

Merged with: Rosen Enterprises (1965-07-01)

Headquarters:

Tokyo, Japan

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Nihon Goraku Bussan (日本娯楽物産株式会社) was a successor to the distribution arm of Service Games, Japan, incorporated on the same day as Nihon Kikai Seizo (the manufacturing arm) in Japan. It was operated by Richard Stewart^[1].

The company's history is not fully understood, however it is thought to have been and traded as Uta Matic^[2]. Nihon Goraku Bussan's main source of income appears to have been distributing jukeboxes on behalf of Rock-Ola, at one point employing 600 people^[3]^[4], and being the largest distributor of its type in Japan^[5].

Despite originally being split in 1960, Nihon Goraku Bussan would acquire Nihon Kikai Seizo (trading as "Sega, Inc.") in June 1964. This now bigger Nihon Goraku Bussan would merge with Rosen Enterprises to create Sega Enterprises, Ltd. in 1965^[5].

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45	60	65	69	74	78	84
Early Sega
Service Games			Gulf+Western
Service Games, Hawaii & Nevada & Japan	Nihon Goraku Bussan & Nihon Kikai Seizou			Sega Enterprises, Inc.
		Sega Enterprises, Ltd.			Sega Ltd. & Gremlin	Sega Ltd.

[:File:CashBox_US_1961-06-24.pdf_p53-1] Cash Box, "June 24, 1961" (US; 1961-06-24), page 53

[:File:CashBox_US_1960-09-03.pdf_p52-2] Cash Box, "September 3, 1960" (US; 1960-09-03), page 52

[:File:CashBox_US_1965-03-27.pdf_p52-3] Cash Box, "March 27, 1965" (US; 1965-03-27), page 52

[:File:Billboard_US_1965-03-20.pdf_p53-4] Billboard, "March 20, 1965" (US; 1965-03-20), page 53

[:File:CashBox_US_1965-09-18.pdf_p67-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Cash Box, "September 18, 1965" (US; 1965-09-18), page 67

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Nihon Goraku Bussan

From Sega Retro

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