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Natsume Inc.

American video game company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ121335045 ↗
Source-derived summary

Natsume Inc. is an American video game publisher. Originally established as an American division of Natsume Co., Ltd. in 1988, it split from its parent company in 1995 to become an independent publisher.

Natsume Inc. is located in Burlingame, California. It is best known for publishing unique, family-oriented niche games, such as Harvest Moon and Reel Fishing. In 2013, Natsume Inc. inaugurated a Japanese division called Natsume Inc. Japan with no connection to its former parent company, Natsume Atari.

Editorial summary

“Natsume Inc.” enters the record as american video game company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Natsume, American and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1995, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Natsume, American and video.
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Why this record matters

“Natsume Inc.” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Natsume, American and video provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q121335045. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988, 1995 and 2013.

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Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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 “Natsume Inc.” 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.