About this deal
The cultural significance of the this product is it was first a company that sold toddler and infant toys in Japan as it grew, it became an international spreading Japanese technology all over the world. Here is a bit of research, Tomy was originally called Takara Tomy, it is a Japanese company and has manufactured it's toys for most parts of the world. The reason the name of the company changed to an english name Tomy was for pragmatic reasons, this is a company that was founded by Kantaro Tomiyama in 1924, it was called Tomiyama at the time then changed it's name to Tomy in 1963. It's rival company called Takara was founded in 1955 and recently in March 2006 both companies merged as one. The headquarter of the company is in Katsushika, Tokyo. There are only 667 employees in the whole company, as of March 31, 2011and the income of the company at the moment is ¥48744 million from 2010-11.