Currently Japan's largest toy company, Bandai was the parent company of Popy Toy, the firm that singlehandedly created the robot-character toy market. Bandai re-absorbed Popy Toy in the early 1980s. Companies now part of the Bandai conglomerate of corporations include Uni-Five and Banpresto. (Bandai management refers to these last two firms as "the Banpresto Group.")

The toy manufacturer; also a major producer of trading cards in Japan. Sells cards by vending machine and foil packs. Also has printed some CCGs in recent years.    Card types manufactured by Bandai include Carddass, Super Battle Carddass, Graffiti, Visual Adventure, Jumbo Carddass, Carddass Masters, and Carddass Masters G.

Japanese toy making company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits, anime, and tokusatsu programs. It is the world's third largest producer of toys.