Dentsu

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Dentsu Inc.

Headquarters in Higashi-Shinbashi, Minato, Tokyo
Native name	株式会社電通
Company type	Public (K.K.)
Traded as	TYO: 4324
Industry	Advertising Public relations Information, Communication
Founded	July 1, 1901; 122 years ago (1901-07-01) (as Japan Advertising Ltd.)
Founder	Hoshiro Mitsunaga
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Hiroshi Igarashi (President)
Revenue	¥1.018 trillion (2018)[1]
Net income	¥61.4 billion (FY 2018)[1]
Number of employees	62,608 (2018)[2]
Subsidiaries	Dentsu International
Website	www.dentsu.com

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Dentsu Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社電通 Kabushiki-gaisha Dentsū or 電通 Dentsū for short, stylized as dentsu) is a Japanese international advertising and public relations joint stock company headquartered in Tokyo. Dentsu is the largest advertising agency in Japan and the fifth largest advertising agency network in the world in terms of worldwide revenues.^{[3][4][verification needed]}

Dentsu does business with almost every major institution in Japan, accounting for about 28 percent of the national advertising budget.^[5] Its connections to the government are so tight that The New York Times referred to Dentsu as "the unofficial communications department of the governing Liberal Democratic Party", and it has also been likened to the CIA on account of its reach.^[5]