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Japanese toy making and video game company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bandai Co., Ltd.[lower-alpha 1] is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in El Segundo, California and Richmond, London. Bandai is a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings and is the parent company's core toy production division. From 1981 until 2001, Bandai produced video game consoles.
Native name | 株式会社バンダイ |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki-gaisha Bandai |
Formerly | Bandai-ya |
Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Toy |
Founded | July 5, 1950; 73 years ago (July 5, 1950) |
Founder | Naoharu Yamashina |
Headquarters | Taitō, Tokyo, Japan |
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¥21.7 billion (2019) | |
¥242.8 billion (2019) | |
Number of employees | 851 (January 2021) |
Parent | Bandai Namco Holdings |
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Website | www.bandai.com |
Footnotes / references "Bandai Namco Group Integrated Report 2019". Bandai Namco Holdings. September 13, 2019. Archived from the original on May 17, 2020. Retrieved May 17, 2020. "About Company". Bandai. Archived from the original on January 30, 2019. Retrieved April 21, 2020. |
Bandai was founded by World War II veteran Naoharu Yamashina as Bandai-Ya on July 5, 1950 as the corporate spin-off of a textile wholesaler. The company began as a distributor of metallic toys and rubber swimming rings, before moving to metal cars and aircraft models. It was renamed Bandai Co., Ltd. in 1961 and achieved considerable success with its action figures based on the anime Astro Boy.