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Jupiter Corporation

Japanese video game and hardware development studio

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ2613004 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jupiter Corporation is a Japanese video game developer. It is based in Kyoto, though they have a secondary branch in Tokyo. Jupiter is best known for developing Nintendo's Picross series, with the company continuing to develop installments under license from Nintendo.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jupiter Corporation” as japanese video game and hardware development studio. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-06-11. The account is most persuasive where Jupiter, Corporation and Japanese can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as japanese video game and hardware development studio. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2613004. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jupiter Corporation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.