Private company

Z Intermediate Global Corporation

Former Japanese internet company

Line Corporation (LINE株式会社, LINE Kabushiki gaisha) was a Japanese internet company headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo, best known for the messaging app Line. It was majority-owned by the South Korean internet company Naver from 2013 to 2021.2 Its chief executive is Takeshi Idezawa.1 It is part of SoftBank Group.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Dec 13, 2019Founded1
  • Industrysoftware industry1
  • Headquarters東京都 新宿区, Japan1
  • Founded inTokyo1
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1
  • LEI353800SE9WIPQJH4RB923
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered address新宿四丁目1番6号, 160-0022 東京都 新宿区, Japan3
  • Registered withLegal Affairs Bureau, 0107-01-0196783

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Photo: 江戸村のとくぞう (Edomura no Tokuzo), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Line Corporation (LINE株式会社, LINE Kabushiki gaisha) was a Japanese internet company headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo, best known for the messaging app Line. It was majority-owned by the South Korean internet company Naver from 2013 to 2021.2

Corporate structure

Z Intermediate Global Corporation is part of a group headed by SoftBank Group. 464 entities, 45 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Z Intermediate Global Corporation reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Leadership

Who has led Z Intermediate Global Corporation, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • LINE

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Oct 1, 2023Succeeded by LY Corporation1

Timeline

  1. Oct 1, 2023Renamed Name changed to Z中間グローバル株式会社1
  2. Mar 2021Renamed Name changed to LINE株式会社1
  3. Dec 13, 2019Founded Founded in Tokyo1

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