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Tomy Company, Ltd. [1] (株式会社タカラトミー, Kabushikigaisha Takara Tomī) (trading as Takara Tomy in Asia and Tomy elsewhere) is a Japanese toy company. It was established in 1924 by Eiichirō Tomiyama as Tomiyama Toy Manufacturing Company (富山玩具製作所), became known for creating popular toys like the B-29 friction toy and luck-based game Pop-up Pirate.
Bandai Co., Ltd. [a] is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo.Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California, and Richmond, London.
In 1953, the company stopped selling architectural lumber and focused solely on model making. In the mid-1950s, wooden model sales were decreasing due to foreign-made plastic models starting to be imported. This led the company to also manufacture plastic models, starting in 1959. Their first model was the Japanese battleship Yamato.
It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997, [2] [3] quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. As of June 2023 [update] , over 91 million units have been sold worldwide. [ 4 ]
Epoch Co., Ltd. (株式会社エポック社, Kabushikigaisha Epokku Sha) is a Japanese toy and computer games company founded in 1958 which is best known for manufacturing Barcode Battler and Doraemon video games, Aquabeads, and the Sylvanian Families series of toys. Its current Representative President is Michihiro Maeda.
Takara Co., Ltd. (株式会社タカラ, Kabushiki gaisha Takara) was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955. In March 2006, the company merged with Tomy Company, Ltd. to form Takara Tomy. The Takara motto was 「遊びは文化」 ("playing is culture"). The company focused on traditional toys and board games.
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Taito Corporation [b] is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets, and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the Taito Trading Company, [c] importing vodka, vending machines, and jukeboxes into Japan. It began production of video games in 1973.