日本鹹蛋超人贏官司齊還神？
【明報專訊】超人（右至左）、超人夢比優斯、七星俠和怪獸竟然聚首一堂在日本拜神？是否要祈求世界和平，減少戰爭或者不想再破壞高樓大廈？原來他們是想用拜神證明自己都是純正日本人。泰國一名商人早前入稟泰國法院，指他有份創作超人一系列角色，但法院則判其敗訴，理由是超人這個角色，並不是泰國人。
（法新社）
TYO to make Ultraman firm its subsidiary
Kyodo News
Television commercial and movie production firm TYO Inc. said Wednesday it will turn Tsuburaya Productions Co., known for its film and TV series featuring the Ultraman character, into a subsidiary.
Listed on the Jasdaq stock market for startups, TYO will pay ￥80 million to acquire 80 percent of the outstanding shares of Tsuburaya Enterprises Co., the effective parent firm of the Tokyo-based production company.
The deal will bring to an end the founding Tsuburaya family's control over the production company.
Tsuburaya Productions has been run by President Kazuo Tsuburaya, grandson of famed TV and film director Eiji Tsuburaya, who founded the firm in 1963.
Tsuburaya Productions, languishing under huge interest-bearing debts, has seen its performance flag. It had sales of ￥5.5 billion and net profit of ￥40 million in the business year to Feb. 28.
TYO is known in industry circles for TV commercials it has produced for such companies as Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) and Q.P. Corp.
TYO said it plans to cash in on the Ultraman series' popular characters by adding the production company to its business group.
