Bandai Museum / 1950～1960
The Advanced Technology Exhibition Hall @ TEPIA was established by Association for Technological Excellence Promoting Innovative Advances (TEPIA) in 1989. It is a venue in which visitors can learn about a variety of advanced technologies that are the pride of Japan. They can also learn about the role plastics play in these technologies. (For more information, see the February 2011 issue of the PR magazine pla-topia.) http://tepia.jp/exhibition/index.html
1950~1960
After the war, large numbers of Japanese-manufactured toys were exported to the United States where they were in great demand because of their high quality. In this decade, Bandai (originally called Bandai-ya) and many other toy manufacturing companies were established. It was during this period that toys equipped with a sonic control system that responded to sound (popularly called "sonicon") and the first injection-molded plastic model produced in Japan, the nuclear submarine Nautilus, appeared (December 1958).
