Welcome to Soto Group International

Soto Group International Inc., is a worldwide entertainment production company which does producing, licensing, distributing for Music Shows, Concerts, Events, Commercials, TV-Video, and products-right sales.

Our president, Mr. Yutaka Kawana, is one of the key producers who founded  the base of International Entertainment business in Japan when he was a chief producer of Japan’s best concert hall , Sankei Hall at the time.

He produced more than 200 concerts per year. When Sankei Hall was established, it was mainly a classical music oriented hall. However, his innovative ideas of bringing various entertainers from overseas changed the hall to Japan’s central hall just like Carnegie Hall in the US. There, he produced B.B. King, Yves Montand, George Shearing, George Chakiris, Harry Belafonte, Thelonious Monk, Mitch Miller and others..

Besides, Sankei Hall production, Kawana independently produced entertainers and artists such as  Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka, Sammy Davis Jr., Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder,  Harry Belafonte, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Glen Campbell, Sha-Na-Na,  Kate Bush, Perry Como, David Soul, Mireille Mathieu, Irene Cara, Joan Jett, Joe Cocker, Foreigner, Rough Cat, Menudo, Scorpion and many others. In 1972, he produced  as many as 300 concerts.

Our goal is to produce best international entertainment which spreads  and enriches the understanding of love and fulfilling quality of life.