Defstar Records

History

• 1997 – Takashi Yoshida, the president of Warner Music Japan, founded the label as T Project.
• 2000 – Yoshida transferred to Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and he brought the T Project catalog. He renamed it DefSTAR Records.
• 2001 – DefSTAR Records becomes a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. Yoshida becomes its manager.
• 2003 – Yoshida returned to Warner Music Japan, but did not try to reclaim his label. Instead, he focused on restructuring his first company.
• 2014 - Defstar Records, Inc. is merged with the six other labels of Sony Music Japan to form Sony Music Labels Inc. and DefSTAR becomes one of labels of Sony Music Labels.
• 2015 - DefSTAR is absorbed into SME Records.

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