Hitachi was founded in 1910 as an electrical repair shop. Today it is one of the leading retailers in new technology.
Kuroyanagi Tetsuko (Japanese language: 黒柳徹å), born August 9, 1933 in Tokyo) is a well-known Japanese TV personality.
Due to its lack of dialog, Tom and Jerry was easily translated into various foreign languages. Tom and Jerry began broadcast in Japan in 1964. A 2005 nationwide survey taken in Japan by TV Asahi, sampling age groups from teenagers to adults in their sixties, in 2005 ranked Tom and Jerry #85 in a list of the top 100 anime of all time, while their web poll taken after the airing of the list ranked it at #58 – the only non-Japanese animation on the list (it should be noted that in Japan, the word “anime” refers to all animation regardless of origin, not just Japanese animation).