Editing Tecmo (section)

==== Imperial Trustee Corporation====
The origins of Tecmo dates to September 1964 as the Imperial Trustee Corporation, a company specialized in the management of building maintenance including the supplying of cleaning equipment.<ref name="History by Koei Tecmo">{{cite web|url=https://www.koeitecmo.co.jp/news/docs/news_20090625.pdf |title=商号の変更及び定款の一部変更に関するお知らせ |access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>  In July 1969, the company started to sell entertainment amusement equipment and opened its first self-managed amusement facility in March 1970 in [[Chiba Prefecture]].<ref name="English history"/>

In October 1977, the Imperial Trustee Corporation was renamed "Tehkan Ltd", with the trade name changed as well to "Tehkan".<ref name="History by Koei Tecmo"/> Tehkan is derived from the name {{nihongo|"Teikoku Kanzai"|帝国管財}}, the company's original Japanese name.

In March 1981, a U.S. division was inaugurated in Los Angeles as "U.S. Tehkan, Inc.".<ref name="Japanese history"/> A month later, in April 1981, Tehkan released in Japan its first internally developed arcade video game, titled "''[[Pleiads]]''" (which was distributed in America by [[Centuri]]).<ref name="Japanese history"/>

On January 8, 1986, Tehkan Ltd officially changed its name to Tecmo Ltd. The company's first internally developed home video game ''[[Mighty Bomb Jack]]'' was released for the [[Family Computer]] in April 1986.<ref name="Japanese history"/>