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Tokuji Hayakawa (早川 徳次, Hayakawa Tokuji, November 3, 1893 – June 24, 1980) was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kōgyō (the present-day Sharp Corporation). He invented and patented the “Tokubijō” belt buckle in 1912 (a belt which can fasten without perforating) and invented the "Ever Ready Sharp ...
Tokuji Hayakawa, Sharp Founder. Story of Founder Tokuji Hayakawa - Chronology. 1893 - 1901. Tokuji Hayakawa's Background. 1901 - 1912. Experiencing Work and Human Kindness. 1912 - 1914. September 15, 1912: Tokuji Sets Up His Own Business. 1915 - 1923. Invention of the Hayakawa Mechanical Pencil. 1915 - 1926.
Born of a vision to continuously innovate to improve the user experience, Sharp is the brainchild of founder Tokuji Hayakawa, inventor of the world’s first mechanical pencil - the Ever-Sharp. The namesake of the business, this invention, among many, set the precedence for Sharp’s development of industry and world-first products.
It is headquartered in Sakai, Osaka and was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912 in Honjo, Tokyo and established as the Hayakawa Metal Works Institute in Abeno, Osaka in 1924. Since 2016, it is majority owned by Taiwan-based manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., better known as Foxconn.
Read Sharp's history of making unique products based on founder Tokuji Hayakawa's dream to "Make products that other companies want to imitate." Product Story Chronology
A Word from Tokuji Hayakawa, Sharp Founder. Sharp founder Tokuji Hayakawa was born in 1893 in Tokyo. After apprenticing as a maker of women'hair ornaments and precision metal products, he opened his own metalworking shop in September 1912. Showing ingenuity and creativity, he invented the Ever-Sharp pencil and grew his business.
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Tokuji Hayakawa invents, manufactures and sells the Ever-Sharp Mechanical Pencil, one of the most innovative and popular writing instruments of its time. 1920 to 1924 Committed to modernization, Tokuji Hayakawa is among the first to introduce assembly line manufacturing to Japan.
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