Sankō
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Sanko was certainly a Japanese company, who made or sold the Baby Suzuka 3x4 camera around 1951. The company name K.K. Sankô (株式会社三光, Sanko Co Ltd) appeared in an ad for the Baby Suzuka in a 1952 issue of Asahi Camera. This page of the AJCC also gives Sanko as the makers' name for the Baby Suzuka.
Both McKeown and the Asacame website say that the Baby Suzuka was made by Sanwa Shôkai (三和商会), the relation between the two companies is unknown.
A company called Sankô K.K. (三光株式会社) exists today (website: http://www.sanko-inet.co.jp/), and currently makes chemical products. It was founded as Sankô Shôkai (三光商会) in 1946 and became Sankô K.K. in 1949, so it might be the same company.
