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Sega Corporation
株式会社セガ

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Company type	Subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings
Industry	Video games Video game console manufacturer Third party publisher
Founded	Standard Games (1940); Service Games (May 1952)
Headquarters	Ōta, Tokyo, Japan International Offices: San Francisco, California, USA Kew Bridge, London, UK Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Jongno, Seoul, South Korea
Key people	Hajime Satomi, CEO of Sega Corp. Hisao Oguchi, President of Sega Corp. Naoya Tsurumi, Head of Sega's Entertainment Business Mike Hayes, President and CEO of Sega West Yu Suzuki Kazunobu Takita, President of Sega Publishing Korea /> Aaron Webber Major Community Team Employee
Products	Sonic the Hedgehog series Sakura Wars series Total War series Virtua Fighter series Shenmue series The House of the Dead series Phantasy Star series Valkyria Chronicles series (See complete software listing) SG-1000 Master System Mega Drive/Genesis(32x, CD) Game Gear Nomad Pico Saturn Dreamcast
Revenue	US$1.64 billion
Number of employees	3,127 (2009)
Website	Sega Corporation (Japan) Sega of America Sega Europe PlaySega

Sega Corporation (株式会社セガ, Kabushiki gaisha Sega), usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software, a hardware development company, and a home computer and console manufacturer, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. The company had success with both arcades and home consoles, but restructured itself, and left the consumer console business to concentrate on software development for multiple third-party platforms on January 31, 2001.

Sega's main offices, as well as the main offices of its domestic division, Sega Corporation (Japan), are located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. Sega's European division, Sega Europe Ltd., is headquartered in the Brentford area of London. Sega's North American division, Sega of America Inc., is headquartered in San Francisco, California; having moved there from Redwood City, California in 1999. Sega Australia is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, and Sega Publishing Korea is headquartered in Jongno, Seoul, Korea. The company also has offices in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy.

On November 1, 2000, Sega changed its company name from Sega Enterprises, Ltd to Sega Corporation.

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