Turner Japan K.K. was a Japanese commercial television broadcasting company operated as a part of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) through its International division. On 1 August 2023, its operations were absorbed into another WBD subsidiary, Discovery Japan.
History
The company was originally established as Japan Entertainment Network K.K. on 8 May 1997, as a joint venture between Itochu and Time Warner (later known as WarnerMedia). On 1 September 1997, the company launched the Japanese version of Cartoon Network on PerfecTV (a forerunner to what is now Sky PerfecTV Premium Service). The company officially renamed itself as Turner Japan K.K. on 1 April 2013.
In July 2009, the company acquired (JIC), which owned and, from Secom, Fuji Xerox and. On 1 January 2014, JIC was merged into Turner Japan.
On 30 January 2018, Turner Japan launched three new channels, Boomerang (a spin off channel to Cartoon Network), Tabi Tele (a spin off to Tabi Channel) and Mondo Mah-jong TV (a spin off to Mondo TV), on NTT Docomo's DTV Channel OTT