Watanabe Entertainment

Major Japanese entertainment conglomerate

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Watanabe Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Native name	株式会社ワタナベエンターテインメント
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha (Joint-stock company)
Traded as	Unlisted
Industry	Service industry (entertainment)
Genre	Tarento management Entertainment
Founded	October 24, 2000
Headquarters	WES Building, 4-2-12, Jingūmae, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan; ZIP 150-0001
Area served	Japan
Key people	Masaki Yoshida (Representative chairman) Miki Watanabe (Representative president)
Owner	Watanabe Productions
Website	www.watanabepro.co.jp

Watanabe Entertainment Co., Ltd. (株式会社ワタナベエンターテインメント, Kabushiki-gaisha Watanabe Entaateinmento) is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate and a member of the Watanabe Production Group. Its head office is in Shibuya, Tokyo and the company's principle functions include organizing television and radio programming, managing Japanese entertainers as well as hosting foreign entertainers on visits to Japan, and planning and production of various commercial and goods advertising ventures.

The company is known informally as either Wanatanabe Entertainment (ワタナベエンターテインメント), Watanabe Enta (ワタナベエンタ) or simply WE.

The current president of the company is Miki Watanabe (渡辺ミキ), who has been leading the company since it was created from the parent company, Watanabe Productions (渡辺プロダクション) in 2000.

Current notable talents

Tarento

Affiliated idols are categorized here.

Male

Shouri Kondou
Mickey Curtis (actor)
Yuya Endo (actor)
Masaki Kaji (actor)
Osamu Hayashi (lecturer)
Hifumi Katō (professional shogi player)
K Dub Shine (hip-hop artist)
Kenta Nishimura (novelist)
Shiraku Tatekawa (rakugoka)
Sou Mizukami (quiz player)
D-Boys (actors group)

Masato Wada
Hiroki Suzuki
Hirofumi Araki (D-Date)
Kōji Seto (D-Date)
Tomo Yanagishita (D-Date)
Tetsuya Makita
Masahiro Usui
Masashi Mikami
Yamada Yusuke
Arata Horie (D-Date)
Shuto Miyazaki
Masaki Nakao
Yūki Yamada (D2)
Takahisa Maeyama (D2)
Atsushi Shiramata (D2)
Jun Shison (D2)

Female

Shizuka Ōya (idol, AKB48)
Gal Sone (competitive eater)
Yuki Kashiwagi (idol, AKB48)
Yoshiko Kuga (actress)
Asuka Kuramochi (tarento, former AKB48)
Marika Tani (idol, SKE48, former HKT48)
Nachu (tarento, former SDN48)
Akiko Matsumoto (tarento)
Sei Matobu (actress)
Sakura Miyajima (TV announcer)

Comedians

Hideyuki Nakayama
Honjamaca (Hidehiko Ishitsuka and Toshiaki Megumi)
Neptune (Jun Nagura, Ken Horiuchi and Taizo Harada)
TIM (Golgo Matsumoto and Red Yoshida)
Ryo Fukawa
Bibiru Ōki
Xabungle (Yosuke Matsuo and Ayumu Kato)
Sayaka Aoki
Ungirls (Takushi Tanaka and Yoshiaki Yamane)
Choushinjuku (Eagle Mizokami, Tiger Fukuda, Thank You Yasutomi, Boo Fujiwara, Koala Koarashi and Ike Nwala)
Wagaya (Yoshiyuki Tsubokura, Hiroyuki Sugiyama and Shun Yatabe)
Lotti (Soichi Nakaoka and Kentaro Kokado)
Haraichi (Yu Sawabe and Yuki Iwao)
Sunshine Ikezaki
Abareru-kun
Atsugiri Jason
Hanako (Tatsuhiro Kikuta, Hiroki Akiyama and Dai Okabe)
Yonsentōshin (Takumi Goto, Hiroki Tsuzuki and Ryodai Ishibashi)
Nora Hirano
Nyanko Star (Super Sansuke and Angora Soncho)
Kanjuku Fresh (Tetsuya Ikeda and Layla Ikeda)