Konno Sangyo
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Konno Sangyo (今野産業株式会社), a.k.a. Konno Industries is a toy manufacturing company, founded in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan.
The company is known for pioneering[1] Japanese Gashapon industry (introduced in the 1960's by Ryuzo Shigeta a.k.a Gacha-gacha Ojisan, a former entrepreneur, and his brother) as one of the large manufacturers of capsule toys, before the industry was completely revolutionized in 1977 with the entry of a toy giant, namely, Bandai.