Here is the outside of Columbia Digital Media (CDM) in the city of Kawasaki (near Yokohama). CDM is Columbia's production plant where they print, package, and ship all the DVDs, CDs, and tapes that the company sells (records are produced at a different site). I went on a tour of this factory yesterday. While there were many machines that could print, label, or wrap hundreds of disks a minute, there were still human workers who had to put the disks in boxes and see that the boxes were shipped off correctly.