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January 24, 2012

ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Masahiro Okafuji, President & CEO; hereinafter "ITOCHU") announced that it has reached an agreement for product merchandising rights of the characters appearing in the manga series HUNTERxHUNTER (by Yoshihiro Togashi) currently carried in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine (published by Shueisha, Inc.) and made into a television animation series with the Nippon Television Music Corporation (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Masatoshi Yoshioka, President) its rights holder, for a period of one year from the present. ITOCHU will begin product deployment through its nine sub-licensees in 11 categories starting with the spring-summer 2012 collection.

HUNTERxHUNTER is a series geared toward boys that has been carried in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1998. With this wide-ranging adventure written by Yoshihiro Togashi, many young male and female readers strongly connect with Gon, the boy tackling the grueling Hunter Examination, as well as the strong passion and actions of other characters also taking on the exams. To date, a total of more than 56 million copies of comic books in the series have been printed, making it a huge hit. The series has now been made into a television animation series and is broadcast by 30 Nippon Television affiliate stations, earning high ratings.

ITOCHU will merchandize all the characters appearing in HUNTERxHUNTER. The sales channels will be focused on nationwide mass retailers, specialty stores and discount stores and sales of 2 billion yen (on a retail sales basis) are forecast over one year's time.

Sub-Licensees and Product Deployment

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Salonge Corporation 18-1, Utsubo Honmachi 1-chome, Nishi-ku, Osaka Handkerchiefs
Small Planet Co., Ltd. 2-13, Koyasumachi 2-chome, Hachioji, Tokyo Socks
Marushin Co., Ltd. 1-5, Obata Minami 1-chome, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya Towels
Sun Men's Wear Co., LTD 28-5, Higashi Nihonbashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Outerwear
Kowa Company, Ltd. 3-5, Awajicho 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka Innerwear, cushions, lap blankets
CAITAC Family Inc. 3-12, Showacho, Kita-ku, Okayama Pajamas
Tomokuni CO., Ltd. 222-1, Sanbonmatsu, Higashi Kagawa-shi, Kagawa Gloves, hats
Kokka Co., Ltd. 4-6, Bingomachi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka Bags
Sun Art Corporation 11-9, Miyake-naka, Matsubara-shi, Osaka Bags, wallets

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