17 2017 disestablishments in Japan

Ange Vierge is a Japanese digital collectible card game released by Fujimi Shobo and Media Factory, two brand companies of Kadokawa Corporation. It was first announced in 2013. The franchise theme song is by L.I.N.K.s, a group composed of the voice actresses Yūka Aisaka, Mai Ishihara, Yoshiko Ikuta, Rie Takahashi, and Nozomi Yamamoto.

Fruits was a monthly Japanese street fashion magazine founded in 1997 by photographer Shoichi Aoki. Though FRUiTS covered styles found throughout Tokyo, it is associated most closely with the fashion subcultures found in Tokyo's Harajuku district. The magazine primarily focused on individual styles found outside the fashion-industry mainstream, as well as subcultures specific to Japan, such as lolita and ganguro, and local interpretations of larger subcultures like punk and goth.

Gamepot, Inc., was one of Japan's leading game publishers of massively multiplayer online games and mobile games.

Higashiyama Station was a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line in Mori, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company. Opened in 1949, it closed in March 2017.

Himekawa Station is a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line in Mori, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company. Opened in 1951, the station is scheduled to close from the start of the revised timetable in March 2017.

JWP Joshi Puroresu , also known as JWP Project or simply JWP, was a Japanese joshi puroresu promotion, founded in 1992 as a splinter promotion of Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. Celebrating its 25th anniversary at the time of its folding in 2017, JWP was the oldest joshi puroresu promotion in Japan and its Openweight Championship was the oldest championship in all of joshi. Command Bolshoi, who had worked for the promotion since the beginning, served as the final president of JWP. The promotion's slogan was "Pure Heart, Pure Wrestling".

Kami-Atsunai Station was a railway station on the Nemuro Main Line in Urahoro, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company. Opened in 1926, it closed in March 2017.

Magazine Special (マガジンSPECIAL) was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Kodansha and first launched with a cover date of September 5, 1983. Its audience demographic is geared toward younger teenage boys, and contents tend to be predominantly sports stories and high school romantic comedies. Many of the popular series in Magazine Special were transferred there from other Kodansha publications like Weekly Shōnen Magazine after their initial run. It is issued monthly on the 20th in perfect-bound B5 format and retails for 540 yen. Issues are typically about 600 pages printed in black and white on heavy newsprint, with a few glossy pages in color. Between 20 and 30 stories appear in each issue, almost all of them installments of ongoing and frequently long-running serials by different manga artists.

The New Renaissance Party was a minor political party in Japan.

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australia. The PlayStation 3 competed primarily against Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.

The Queens Presented by Kowa was a women's professional team golf tournament held in Japan. The tournament was contested by teams representing the tours of Japan, Korea, Australia and Europe. Hosts Japan led from start to finish to win the inaugural tournament 4–6 December 2015.

Rev. from DVL was a Japanese idol girl group formed in 2011, as a successor to vocal and dance group DVL. It was formed as a local idol group for major activities within Fukuoka Prefecture, and was managed under ActiveHakata.

Sylph is a defunct Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works and was sold monthly. The magazine was originally published on December 9, 2006, as a special edition version of MediaWorks' now-defunct Dengeki Comic Gao! under the title Comic Sylph as a quarterly publication. On March 21, 2008, with the release of the sixth volume, the magazine was transferred over as a special edition version of ASCII Media Works' shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh. On May 22, 2008, the magazine became independent of Dengeki Daioh and was published as volume one of Sylph as the July 2008 issue as a bimonthly publication. On May 22, 2010, the magazine started to be published monthly. Sylph is one of the few magazines originally published by MediaWorks not under the Dengeki naming line, such as with Dengeki Daioh, and Dengeki G's Magazine, the first of which being Active Japan in 1995 which has been discontinued since 1998.

The Third Abe Cabinet governed Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from December 2014 to November 2017. The government is a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito and controls both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet.

The Tokugawa Yoshinobu family was founded in 1902 when Emperor Meiji permitted Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shōgun of Japan, to found a house with the highest rank of nobility, kōshaku (Prince). The title was officially declared obsolete in 1947, though the family still maintained it until the death of Yoshitomo Tokugawa in 2017.

Warabitai Station was a railway station in Oshamambe, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company. Opened in 1904, it closed in March 2017.

Yamanaka Scout Camp ボーイスカウト日本連盟山中野営場 was the mountainous national Scout training camp of the Scout Association of Japan, located in Minamitsuru District, Yamanashi, near Lake Yamanaka, near the base of Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture. Yamanaka campsite was established at the end of the Taishō era for training Scout leaders. The 1,000 meter altitude, quiet campground is surrounded by the acorn-bearing Quercus mongolica and larch on a northward slope of about 72,732 square meters, which gently drops towards Lake Yamanaka.