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Sotsu

Sotsu Co., Ltd.
Native name
株式会社創通
Business corporation
Traded as JASDAQ
Industry Advertising agency
Founded October 1, 1965
Headquarters 5-12-5, Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo
Key people
Yūji Nasu (Representative Chairman)
Akihiro Yuasa (Representative President)
Revenue ¥414,750,000
Number of employees
25 (as of August 2006)
Parent Bandai Namco Holdings
Website www.sotsu-co.jp

Sotsu Co., Ltd. (株式会社創通 Kabushikigaisha Sōtsū?) is a Japanese advertising agency. It is a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings.

It was founded in 1965 as Toyo Agency (東洋エージェンシー Tōyō Ējenshī?), with it being designated by baseball team Yomiuri Giants as its primary agency for the planning and distribution of the team's merchandising interests. In 1977, it changed its name to Sotsu Agency (創通エージェンシー Sōtsū Ējenshī?). The agency was first listed in the JASDAQ stock exchange in 2003. On April 1, 2007, the company changed its name to Sotsu (創通 Sōtsū?).

It has been involved in the production and licensing of numerous television programs, beginning in 1972 with Thunder Mask. The first anime series it produced was Sunrise's Invincible Super Man Zambot 3, after which the company produced numerous others. In 1979, it produced Mobile Suit Gundam.


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