The history of table tennis companies from Japan:
1) Nittaku (1947)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...u%2findex.html
2) Yasaka (1947)
--> YAoita +
SAKAmoto
http://www.yasaka.se/
page: image / the champion story
3) Butterfly (1950)
http://www.butterfly-world.com/default17_e.htm
page: info / the company / history
In 1945, Hikosuke Tamasu as a young soldier was only two kilometers away when the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima. In caring for the injured, he first began to feel the soul-stirring need to become a peacemaker. He named the family business he began in 1946
“Butterfly” because the butterfly was
“an image of peace throughout the world”—indeed, the ancients regarded it as an emblem of the soul.
4) TSP (1963)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...ml#torihiki%2f