is a Japanese clothing brand with its registered head office in

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office. It was established on August 10, 1896, by Tsurukichi Hatano, and was originally known as Gunze Silk Manufacturing Co., Ltd. . The company started the Gunze Blue-Mountain Underwear brand in association with Daiei in 1962, and this brand was used for all sexes before the introduction of the Christie brand for women in 1968. In a three-year period from 1962 the brand made up 6 percent of Daiei's turnover of underwear. It began selling its clothing in

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in 2000. The company's flagship outlet is in Harajuku.Cole, Shaun. ''The Story of Men's Underwear''. Parkstone International, May 8, 2012. , 9781780428826. p
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"The Japanese, Osaka based underwear company Gunze, ..in the flagship store opened in the fashionable Harijuku area of Tokyo in 2010."

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