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Shintaro Tsuji (辻 信太郎, Tsuji Shintarō) (born December 7, 1927) is a Japanese entrepreneur. Formerly a civil servant, he is the founder and (until 2020) president of Sanrio , a merchandise company known for its characters , including Hello Kitty .
Shintaro Tsuji founded Sanrio on August 10, 1960, then known as the Yamanashi Silk Company using ¥1,000,000 in capital. [a] In 1962, Tsuji expanded his enterprise from silk to rubber sandals with flowers painted on them. [10] Tsuji noticed his success gained by merely adding a cute design to the sandals. [10]
Tsuji says he doesn’t know why his grandfather chose to make her British—“Hello Kitty was born 50 years ago and I'm only 35!” he laughs—though prevailing wisdom is that Japanese products ...
In 1962, Shintaro Tsuji, founder of Sanrio, began selling rubber sandals with flowers painted on them. [21] Tsuji noted the profits gained by adding a cute design to the shoes and hired cartoonists to design cute characters for his merchandise. [21] Hello Kitty was designed by Yuko Shimizu and was added to the lineup of early Sanrio characters ...
Then, in 2020, Tomokuni Tsuji inherited the role as Sanrio's boss. He is the grandson of the firm's founder, Shintaro Tsuji, and was just 31 at the time, making him the youngest chief executive of ...
The Legend of Sirius) is a 1981 Japanese anime film by Sanrio, based on a story by Shintaro Tsuji. It is said to be a loose retelling of Romeo and Juliet, itself a European version of many tales of star-crossed lovers in a variety of cultures and eras. In this story, the children of the gods of fire and water fall in love and fight to stay ...
Ringing Bell (チリンの鈴, Chirin no Suzu, lit. Chirin's Bell) is a 1978 Japanese anime adventure-drama film adaptation of the storybook of the same name written by Takashi Yanase, the creator of Anpanman. [1]
Nutcracker Fantasy (くるみ割り人形, Kurumiwari Ningyō, lit. ' The Nutcracker ') is a Japanese-American stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio, [1] very loosely based on Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker and E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". [2]