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Culture Convenience Club

Logo: Culture Convenience Club, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Japanese video rental and bookstore chain

Culture Convenience Club Company, Limited (カルチュア・コンビニエンス・クラブ株式会社, Karuchua Konbiniensu Kurabu Kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese company that operates Tsutaya (蔦屋), a chain of video rental shops and bookstores throughout Japan, Taiwan and China. The company is headquartered in Ebisu, Tokyo. The stock of the company was formerly listed in the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 4756), but it has since been delisted following a management buyout in 2011.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1982Founded1
  • Industryvideo rental shop1
  • HeadquartersTokyo1
  • Founded inHirakata1
  • Websitewww.ccc.co.jp
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1

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Culture Convenience Club Company, Limited (カルチュア・コンビニエンス・クラブ株式会社, Karuchua Konbiniensu Kurabu Kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese company that operates Tsutaya (蔦屋), a chain of video rental shops and bookstores throughout Japan, Taiwan and China. The company is headquartered in Ebisu, Tokyo. The stock of the company was formerly listed in the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 4756), but it has since been delisted following a management buyout in 2011.2

Corporate structure

Culture Convenience Club sits at the top of its group. 9 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Culture Convenience Club reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • TSUTAYA
  • TSUTAYA BOOK NETWORK
  • Tsutaya Books

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

As of December 2013, the company and its franchisees operate 1,461 Tsutaya rental shops in Japan.

The T Card, the membership card of Tsutaya, works as a platform for a cross-industry loyalty program. As of May 2010, more than 35 million holders of the card earn "T Points" at FamilyMart, Book Off, Lotteria, and so forth as well as Tsutaya shops.

On 17 March 2017, the company acquired magazine publishing brand Tokuma Shoten. The deal was expected to be completed at the end of March. In September 2017, the Culture Convenience Club signed a deal with China's CITIC Press Group to create a joint cultural content distribution platform.

From Wikipedia’s article on Culture Convenience Club, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

Also owns

  • TSUTAYA
  • TSUTAYA BOOK NETWORK
  • Tsutaya Books

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1982Founded Founded in Hirakata1

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