Talk:Itochu/Archives/2012

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Hoary in topic "C.Itochu"

"C.Itochu"

The article asserts that the company was previously called "C.Itochu". When and in which language/market was this? -- Hoary 02:34, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Itochu incorporated in 1918 under the name C. Itoh & Co., using “CI” logo until 1992, when C. Itoh & Co. rebranded itself as ITOCHU[1]. --220.98.192.2 09:38, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

But "& Co." isn't Japanese; it's English. And the page seems to have the company giving itself an English name while it probably wasn't doing anything outside Japan, which is absurd. Yup, here we are: this page tells us that the name in Japanese from 1918 was Itōchū Shōji KK (伊藤忠商事株式会社). The page doesn't mention any English name, but does say that it got a new English name in 1992.
So the Japanese name of the company was unchanged, and at no time was "C.Itochu" used in Japanese (which would anyway be almost inconceivable) or English.
Incidentally, lots of Japanese companies like to CAPITALIZE THEIR NAMES (e.g. "SANYO") but WP ignores such exhibitionism. -- Hoary 12:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)