Ken Music was a jazz record label based in Japan that distributed CDs in Japan, Germany, North America, and Great Britain.
The company was founded by Kenichi (Ken) Fujiwara in 1989 as a subsidiary of Matsuka USA, which, among other things, manufactured industrial robotic sewing systems for car seat manufacturers.
[1][2] Executive producer Other producers Matsuka USA Inc. incorporated in the state of New York on November 1, 1989, and changed its name on November 21, 2001, to Upright Enterprises, Incorporated.
Upright (Akira Matsuka, President; Mieko M. Ajiro, Agent) registered as a foreign corporation in California on February 28, 1995 and kept its corporate domicile in New York.
As of 2012, its California foreign registration was forfeited, although it is an active corporation in New York.