{"id":22676,"date":"2026-05-15T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/22676\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:41:14","slug":"ten-production-companies-set-to-enter-the-japanese-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/22676\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Production Companies Set to Enter the Japanese Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      &#8216;Series On Board&#8217; to Take Place in Tokyo from May 19 to 21  <br \/>Discussions on Co-Productions, Remakes, and More\n    <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency announced on May 15 that &#8216;Series On Board&#8217; will be held in Tokyo, Japan, from May 19 to 21.<\/p>\n<p>\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiae.co.kr\/news\/img_view.htm?img=2026051509034064213_1778803420.png\" class=\"img_link\" title=\"&#039;Series On Board&#039; Poster.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026051509034064213_1778803420.png\" alt=\"'Series On Board' Poster.\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"txt\">&#8216;Series On Board&#8217; Poster.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiae.co.kr\/news\/img_view.htm?img=2026051509034064213_1778803420.png\" class=\"img_figure\" title=\"&#039;Series On Board&#039; Poster.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView original image<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This event creates opportunities for collaboration between domestic production companies and overseas broadcasters and investors, centered on the planning and development projects of Korean studios. This year, the event will take place in four countries: Japan, Thailand, Canada, and the UK, starting with Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Ten participating production companies will introduce their existing content and new projects to forty local broadcasters, production companies, investors, and distributors, and will discuss potential co-production and investment partnerships. Local OTT platforms and broadcasters, including Netflix Japan, will also attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, WHYNOT Media co-produced the drama &#8216;Heo Restaurant&#8217; with Hakuhodo DY Music &amp; Pictures and Corpus Japan. The series ranked second in viewership among Korean dramas on Japan&#8217;s OTT platform ABEMA TV last year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>      Hot Picks Today<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiae.co.kr\/en\/article\/2026051500394242981\" title=\"&quot;After Vowing to Become No. 1 Globally, Sudden Policy Brake Puts Companies\u2019 Massive Investments at Risk&quot;\" class=\"thumb\" onclick=\"gtag( &#039;event&#039;, &#039;click&#039;, { &#039;event_category&#039; : &#039;V_\uc8fc\uc694\ub274\uc2a4&#039;, &#039;event_label&#039; : &#039;1\uc2ac\ub86f&#039; });\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2025122209072464645_1766362044.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;After Vowing to Become No. 1 Globally, Sudden Policy Brake Puts Companies\u2019 Massive Investments at Risk&quot;\"\/><br \/>\n        &#8220;After Vowing to Become No. 1 Globally, Sudden Policy Brake Puts Companies\u2019 Massive Investments at Risk&#8221;<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, Imaginas is signing a co-development contract for a drama with ABC TV and a co-production agreement with Fuji TV. Eo Contents Group will also sign a business agreement with TV Tokyo to promote remakes and co-productions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation  services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"txt_prohibition\">\u00a9 The Asia Business Daily(www.asiae.co.kr). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Series On Board&#8217; to Take Place in Tokyo from May 19 to 21 Discussions on Co-Productions, Remakes, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[217,215,2487,5979,214,216,38,173,4531,180,921,657,5978],"class_list":{"0":"post-22676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-business-of-japan","10":"tag-economic","11":"tag-issue","12":"tag-japans-business","13":"tag-japanese-business","14":"tag-korea","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newspaper","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-society","19":"tag-south-korea","20":"tag-the-asia-business-daily"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}